I have just bought some sacks of 'strulch'. This is a straw mulch which has been treated organically with something like copper. They use it at the Eden project. I haven't applied it yet but mean to tidy up and weed round my hostas etc and then spread it thickly on the ground. The other thing I found brilliant this year is an organic pump spray which you spray on the leaves of plants and slugs and snails don't like the taste. It doesn't kill anything. It kept tiny snails from climbing up my lilies and eating leaves and flowers and anywhere else such as young dahlias. When I saw nibble marks on the leaves I gave them a good squirt of the product. If it rains you have to repeat as it gets washed off. I've found once plants get big they can cope ok with slugs and snails.
Pour salt on them.. They just dissolve into a liquid.. Dont get salt on the plants/flowers though... You have to be ruthless with slugs and snail... Even fill a small tub with cheap salt and just drop them in
Put some kale in a week ago, covered in fine net, stil seeing cabbage whites about, we put copper rings around the plants, copper tape in a border formation, Hubby added a few slugs pellets at the net edges, the following morning, several were stripped! You could see the slug slime on the netting!
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I have just bought some sacks of 'strulch'. This is a straw mulch which has been treated organically with something like copper. They use it at the Eden project. I haven't applied it yet but mean to tidy up and weed round my hostas etc and then spread it thickly on the ground. The other thing I found brilliant this year is an organic pump spray which you spray on the leaves of plants and slugs and snails don't like the taste. It doesn't kill anything. It kept tiny snails from climbing up my lilies and eating leaves and flowers and anywhere else such as young dahlias. When I saw nibble marks on the leaves I gave them a good squirt of the product. If it rains you have to repeat as it gets washed off. I've found once plants get big they can cope ok with slugs and snails.
Pour salt on them.. They just dissolve into a liquid.. Dont get salt on the plants/flowers though... You have to be ruthless with slugs and snail... Even fill a small tub with cheap salt and just drop them in
They like slices of lemon.. Put some down to draw them out at night then strike with salt
Must be similar to the boiled garlic spray Greenmum, I've found that works too!
Put some kale in a week ago, covered in fine net, stil seeing cabbage whites about, we put copper rings around the plants, copper tape in a border formation, Hubby added a few slugs pellets at the net edges, the following morning, several were stripped! You could see the slug slime on the netting!