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Gravel versus slugs
Supernoodle
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Hello all!
I've recently started refurbishing my overgrown garden (having done enough of the house refurb that hubbie has permitted me out!).
I've been having a sneaky grow of salads in pots and not had any probs with slugs presumably to the gravel surroundings that is so popular here in Norfolk.
My garden design hence has small gravel borders around my (as yet imaginary) greenhouse and raised beds.
Whaddya reckon? Is this worthwhile? It seems obvious to me, but I've not seen it mentioned anywhere as a good idea?
Cheers
ps buds in garden. Spring on way. Whoo hoo!
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I have a cotswold buff stone border all around my patio, it gets full of slugs.
If you can get it,diatomaceous earth then use it.It wont stop them but it will cut them to death.To us and our pets its a white powder to bugs/slugs its broken glass.
Bill
Ah, so an unnecessary faff, then. I won't bother. Perhaps it's the volume - a few pots in the middle of a sea of gravel versus a thin slither around my imaginary beds.
We're not far from you and we don't get a lot of slugs and snail bother here (crossing fingers and touching wood) - I put it down to resident frogs and hedgehogs and quite gritty soil and Fairygirl's magic wand.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.