DE is easily "puffed" out of a bottle like the kind you get for ketchup (my spell check didn't like "catsup"--am I the only one who spells it that way?) or mustard, with a pointed skinny cap. I have a couple that are larger than the usual table-size that I bought at a restaurant supply place near me. I've been trying DE myself in several situations.

I periodically make a shallow depression in the garden and put a dish there with an inch of beer in it. Surprising what turns up drowned in the morning. Slugs, snails, pillbugs. Maybe earwigs.

If you have a hand sprayer sprayer you can use water with orange oil (like TKO or Delimonene) and soap and spinosad or neem on some of these things. (Do you have Ace Hardware or Big Lots nearby? They carry a nice little half-gallon pump sprayer for about $4.50) Visit http://www.dirtdoctor.com and poke around the library and you'll find lots of hints on dealing with all sorts of bugs.

Best way to figure out what is eating your plants is to go out with a flashlight at night and look at those leaves to see what is there.

SRS