hi i use boiled garlic water to get rid of slugs an snails. boil water in a pan with some garlic cloves an then let it cool down drain the water from garlic in to a 4pint milk bottle it will realy smell dont worry it will go,you only need a few drops of your garlic juice in a watering can then fill watering can with your water an go over all your plants give it a good going over,it kills all eggs of snails an slugs all slugs an snails go out of your garden and you can grow hosters i use garlic juice 2 times aweek just befor dark. ps put lable on your bottle.hope this helps.
I live in very damp heavy clay woodland conditions and have a major slug problem. Slowly but surely Im working out what they don't like. This year I planted a red dwarf tulip and a tall white tulip with purple edge might be shirley...well the red one was totally eaten by the slugs but they did not go near my white and purple edged tulip (which grew taller and is flowering now)...im stunned...anyway I think I bought them in homebase will try them again next year would love to hear from others on other tulips slugs are not so keen on..many thanks having made many expensive mistakes
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 24.0pt;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">In this months Gardeners World a reader suggested using newspaper instead of straw under strawberries to keep slugs off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Has anyone tried this, and doesn’t it go soggy.
thanks Shazza1 for the garlic water idea, I'm definately going to give that one a try.
I had loads of slugs in my compost bin last year, the black ones are good for the compost bin apparently, prefering rotting matter to fresh green growth, so if I find any I put them in the compost bin. By the time the compost was ready the slugs had all gone. Had they died with nothing else to eat, or had they just buggered off elsewhere? Will my homemade compost now be full of slug eggs? I have a real problem killing any pests in the garden, even slugs. All the ones I find in the garden go into the brown council recycling compost bin, so go live at the dump. I am worried that I am just sending the problem elsewhere.
they dont have my cranesbill, euphorbia, iceplant, magnolias, roses, elephant ears, dicentra, or aqualegia, also leave the woodruff alone. Also dont have the lavender and rosemary. I've lost SO many plants to slugs over the years but these have been bomb proof for us.
I grow my petunias in hanging baskets to avoid slugs. Coffee grounds work ok with some plants - but some plants seem sensitive to coffee and die. I have grow hostas in big pots and put vaseline on the sides of the pots - slugs don't like crawling over it. The hostas are still doing well after several years.
I love hostas but always had the problem of slugs and snails. This year I planted new hostas in tubs and used copper tape. I grouped the hostas together in a nice shady spot in the garder and put some rocks around the pots - looks quite decorative actually, but I also put little trays here and there with bird seed. I also placed my bird bath in the same spot. So far so good - I do not seem to be having too much trouble with slugs and snails. I leave some apples about also for the blackbird and thrushes - who really like the snails and use the rocks to break the shells.
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I'm going to try the nematodes for slugs this year as I am fed up with my plants been nibbled to a stalk! Has any one tried this?
Slowly but surely Im working out what they don't like. This year I planted a red dwarf tulip and a tall white tulip with purple edge might be shirley...well the red one was totally eaten by the slugs but they did not go near my white and purple edged tulip (which grew taller and is flowering now)...im stunned...anyway I think I bought them in homebase will try them again next year would love to hear from others on other tulips slugs are not so keen on..many thanks having made many expensive mistakes
thanks Shazza1 for the garlic water idea, I'm definately going to give that one a try.
I had loads of slugs in my compost bin last year, the black ones are good for the compost bin apparently, prefering rotting matter to fresh green growth, so if I find any I put them in the compost bin. By the time the compost was ready the slugs had all gone. Had they died with nothing else to eat, or had they just buggered off elsewhere? Will my homemade compost now be full of slug eggs? I have a real problem killing any pests in the garden, even slugs. All the ones I find in the garden go into the brown council recycling compost bin, so go live at the dump. I am worried that I am just sending the problem elsewhere.
they dont have my cranesbill, euphorbia, iceplant, magnolias, roses, elephant ears, dicentra, or aqualegia, also leave the woodruff alone. Also dont have the lavender and rosemary. I've lost SO many plants to slugs over the years but these have been bomb proof for us.
I grow my petunias in hanging baskets to avoid slugs. Coffee grounds work ok with some plants - but some plants seem sensitive to coffee and die. I have grow hostas in big pots and put vaseline on the sides of the pots - slugs don't like crawling over it. The hostas are still doing well after several years.
I love hostas but always had the problem of slugs and snails. This year I planted new hostas in tubs and used copper tape. I grouped the hostas together in a nice shady spot in the garder and put some rocks around the pots - looks quite decorative actually, but I also put little trays here and there with bird seed. I also placed my bird bath in the same spot. So far so good - I do not seem to be having too much trouble with slugs and snails. I leave some apples about also for the blackbird and thrushes - who really like the snails and use the rocks to break the shells.