Has anyone tried / had any success with homemade garlic wash concoctions? I think I brewed some up once but made the kitchen stink so haven't bothered again.
@Fairygirl - I think we are a laughing stock to all of the creatures around here.😂
Quite!
Do you mean garlic for preventing slugs? I think some folk use it for hostas, as they do get attacked so much, but I don't know how well it works. I'd have to be constantly applying it as it would get washed off too quickly. I just gave up on hostas - less stressful
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
@Fairygirl - funny you should say that as only yesterday I decided I would plant the few potted Hostas we have in the ground out of the way. Less depressing than looking at lacey curtains all summer. The wash properly was for Hostas now I think of it.
I have one which is reasonably resistant so I keep it, as it fills a space. It's not particularly exciting though. I think it got eaten a lot more than usual last year, but I just hack the manky leaves off and the other planting around it covers them.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I’ve found that with hostas you just have to go out nightly with a pot of salty water and remove them by hand. One or two slugs/snails will decimate the hostas in your garden !
That's the problem though @muckyhandsmike - I couldn't be ar*ed doing that every night. I'm usually asleep on the settee by about 9pm. The problem I have is that very few other people garden in any serious way round here, so mine is the constant, attractive, free buffet for them. When I see them during the day they get snipped. The large snails get squished and left for the wasps.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
@Fairygirl - what is it about 9 pm and sofas? Do they have some hypnotic powers to send you into a Nanna Nap just when something half decent might be coming on the telly? It does here I know that much.
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I think I brewed some up once but made the kitchen stink so haven't bothered again.
Do you mean garlic for preventing slugs? I think some folk use it for hostas, as they do get attacked so much, but I don't know how well it works. I'd have to be constantly applying it as it would get washed off too quickly.
I just gave up on hostas - less stressful
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
The wash properly was for Hostas now I think of it.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
The problem I have is that very few other people garden in any serious way round here, so mine is the constant, attractive, free buffet for them. When I see them during the day they get snipped. The large snails get squished and left for the wasps.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
It does here I know that much.
That's why I record anything that's on after 9pm @alfharris8....
I'm much more of morning person.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...