If they could harvest or synthesise whatever it is in certain plants that make them unpalatable to slugs and snails, it would make a great deterrent - especially if they could make it systemic. I can't think of any food plants they avoid so maybe whatever it is wouldn't suit us either but it would be great for ornamentals anyway.
I thought that was garlic @B3 - often advised to use as a spray to keep the slimesters off hostas etc.
I expect that like humans presented with a full box of chocs, they go for the tastes and textures they prefer leaving the rest for others.
Fortunately, we don't have grey squirrels here but I do occasionally see red sqirrels in woodland. They don't come near our garden tho as they'd have to cross farmland and roads to get to our oaks and we have just the one conifer so poor pickings for reds.
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Oddly our hostas were eaten every year by slugs and/or snail up until about 2 years ago, since which they have not been touched? Perhaps we are now growing more juicy food for them.
Yorkshire, ex Italy and North East coast. Growing too old for it!
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Definitely not happy about it, it'd be a lot more helpful if it went for the Victoria plums. I've got so many of those it's ridiculous!
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“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
I expect that like humans presented with a full box of chocs, they go for the tastes and textures they prefer leaving the rest for others.
Fortunately, we don't have grey squirrels here but I do occasionally see red sqirrels in woodland. They don't come near our garden tho as they'd have to cross farmland and roads to get to our oaks and we have just the one conifer so poor pickings for reds.