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Bugs eating plant leaves

sharonWO8VloTesharonWO8VloTe Posts: 3
in Problem solving
I have hostas and other perennials that bugs are eating the leaves.  What can I put on the plants?

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  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Salad dressing?
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Need photos.  :)
    Slugs are the biggest chomper of Hostas though 

    @wild edges  :D
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    My Hostas get eaten by tiny little snails.   Seems to be a year for them, they’re on everything! 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • donedigging28donedigging28 Posts: 6
    Certainly for the Hostas I would recommend getting copper bands that can be interlinked around a plant to any size, available on the internet. You then just have to stop any leaves touching the ground and creating a bridge. Slugs won't climb the copper and it fades to blend in. If there are slimy silvery trails over the leaves of any plants it's likely to be slugs and snails.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Except that slugs don't just go 'over ground'. They live underneath as well, and just come up inside those rings  :D
    The small ones are the worst, as @Lyn says. 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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