Wow, that's great, Bobert! I'd love to see some reasonable retail prices. I cannot believe what they want for Blue Spruce and Quaking Aspens around here. It's not as though they are endangered or anything; they are all over the forests here.

Anyway, I just thought the following might be of interest in regards to slugs cutworms in a garden. It's from a naturalist who sends out weekly newsletters from Mexico and elsewhere:

At http://www.backyardnature.net/n/10/100613co.jpg you
can see one way I put an end to that. Our guests leave
behind many plastic bottles that once held purified
water, so from those bottles I've been cutting
"collars" to put around the seedlings. In the picture
the blue thing is the collar. It forms a wall that
keeps out cutworms roaming across the ground looking
for juicy stems to cut.

Another cutworm-fighting technique sounds almost too
simple to be true, but I tried it during my hermiting
days in Mississippi and it really works. Just stick a
toothpick next to a seedling's stem. To do its work, a
cutworm must encircle a stem with its body. Apparently
a toothpick rising flush with the stem's surface
confuses the worm, or messes up its cutting technique.
Whatever happens, toothpicks work.