My mother uses old coffee grounds around her hostas and it works brilliantly at keeping slugs away. I think they find it hard to slide across the grains. I've had partial success using them on my young basil plants but that may be because I've not been methodical enough in applying them regularly.
Loved this AND all the comments, HATE slugs and there's always an abundance of them but not of the flowers and follage. I take GREAT pleasure of putting on my wellies after it has rained and stomp all over the tufts of grass and smile to myself when I hear all the scrunching beneath my feet!!
it rained couple of nights ago and i couldnt believe the amount of slugs tracking across the garden. i know they are in my compost bin, i dont mind them there, i put salt directly on the slugs on that occasion but it was a horrendous sight to view - i thought the birds would enjoy. its cheaper to buy the standard salt than it is to use slug pellets which i found did very little.
im growing my first batch ever of strawberries as well as tomatoes, outside !! we put salt all about, like a barrier, but i know the slugs got in the soil itself. im very interested to learn lavender may help so im off to put sprigs and cuttings of lavender about to help deter. the slugs decimated so much that i had put in new this year. i tried seaweed with the hostas but no, the slugs still munch thro
I planted 2 different Astrantia and both have been eaten to the ground by slugs or snails. However, the sedum and Japanese Anemones planted in the same bed remain untouched as do the Phlox Paniculata.
l have lots of frogs in my garden but they do not seem to like slugs, we used to have a toad who lived under a shed he was the one who ate the slugs.but he as gone a long time ago and l miss him.
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we used to have a toad who lived under a shed he was the one who ate the slugs.but he as gone a long time ago and l miss him.