I use the garlic paste available in jars in Asian stores for a couple of quid. Dilute a spoon of that paste in about 3-4 litres of water and spray. The results were rather mixed; also if it rains soon after, I guess it all gets washed away.
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There is an old story of someone who put salt down to keep the slugs of the radishes. They just dipped the radish in the salt. Yum.
It could be the same with garlic.
In Surrey, I get few snails, probably because of the low level of calcium in the soil. In Devon, on carboniferous limestone, I got lots of both. The slugs came down from the hosta leaves to eat the slug pellets, the snails stayed up in the leaves.
A few years ago one could buy metaldehyde as a sprayable formulation. The problem with hostas is that their leaves are very waxy, the spray just bounced off the leaves. Garlic solution would react similarly..
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I put down some of those wool pellets too, seemed ok, but then caught some slugs going over them!
Snails didnt seem to like them though.
So now it's garlic spray.
I do have some of the old blue slug pellets, but don't like using them.
It could be the same with garlic.
In Surrey, I get few snails, probably because of the low level of calcium in the soil. In Devon, on carboniferous limestone, I got lots of both. The slugs came down from the hosta leaves to eat the slug pellets, the snails stayed up in the leaves.
A few years ago one could buy metaldehyde as a sprayable formulation. The problem with hostas is that their leaves are very waxy, the spray just bounced off the leaves. Garlic solution would react similarly..
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."