I have read several times that French Marigolds and Nasturtiums inbetween your crops work to deter slugs from eating them, also in the greenhouse it's said that they deter aphids, white fly and black fly from tomato's and peppers. I have bought some French Marigold's so I will be giving them a try
No! Slugs love Marigold flowers and love Nasturtiums. What you are doing is using a sucidide plan - sacrificing one plant to save another. It does not exactly work as you are attracting slugs to the plants you want to save with a plant with a stronger scent, so you end up with slugs on both.
True. I assiduously kept slugs off my Hostas, Hollyhocks and the like this spring and summer. The Hollyhock got rust and the rest were eaten by Moth caterpillars in autumn. So I have learned to live with the odd leaf being eaten, there is no thing as perfect and you will drive yourself mad in trying!
If this has already been said then I do apologise. I consistantly use crushed up egg shells around the base of hostas and this works very well. I don't like slug pellets and although the picture of my Nan bashing a load of slugs with the garden spade is funny, I would rather her not do it!
Hi Blairs, I'm not going to plant any marigolds near the veg that I plant in the yard, (In what bit of soil I have, which is approx 6ft by 5ft) I am just going to have a few in the greenhouse to deter aphids, black fly and white fly because I had problems with those last year.
Because I have such a small plot of soil I didn't have a lot of problems with slugs last year, thankfully! allthough there was some tiny ones in the celery along with several snails of which I removed promptly
Thanks for the many lists and comments, that has got the garden sorted, I will grow dahlias, delphiniums, hostas and maigolds in my greenhouse, with the door shut, and if they trespass, they will find slug pellets. SORRY.
Second-hand info, but I shall try it! A friend told me she was puzzled by the lack of slugs in her garden . Last year, to boot! Then she became friendly with the new neighbour, an Asian lady who said it was due to the very large number of garlic plants that she grows next door to my friend. Apparently her garden is full of flowers, the garlic just pops up in between, so it doesn't look ugly. She cooks loads of the green leaves , not waiting for bulbs to form. So I see no need to buy expensive garlic to experiment with this: I'm going to pop supermarket cloves all over the place and see what happens. Anyone else trid this?
i heard that the garlic works very well, so i will be trying this , if someone ever comes up with one item to keep them away they would make a fortune, but i agree slug pellets are not the way to go, i am lucky i have a toad in the garden so hopefully he will performe for his residental stay ?
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Massive amount of geranium (Cranesbill) varieties. Never touched by slugs.
No! Slugs love Marigold flowers and love Nasturtiums. What you are doing is using a sucidide plan - sacrificing one plant to save another. It does not exactly work as you are attracting slugs to the plants you want to save with a plant with a stronger scent, so you end up with slugs on both.
True. I assiduously kept slugs off my Hostas, Hollyhocks and the like this spring and summer. The Hollyhock got rust and the rest were eaten by Moth caterpillars in autumn. So I have learned to live with the odd leaf being eaten, there is no thing as perfect and you will drive yourself mad in trying!
If this has already been said then I do apologise. I consistantly use crushed up egg shells around the base of hostas and this works very well. I don't like slug pellets and although the picture of my Nan bashing a load of slugs with the garden spade is funny, I would rather her not do it!
Hi Blairs, I'm not going to plant any marigolds near the veg that I plant in the yard, (In what bit of soil I have, which is approx 6ft by 5ft) I am just going to have a few in the greenhouse to deter aphids, black fly and white fly because I had problems with those last year.
Because I have such a small plot of soil I didn't have a lot of problems with slugs last year, thankfully! allthough there was some tiny ones in the celery along with several snails of which I removed promptly
Thanks for the many lists and comments, that has got the garden sorted, I will grow dahlias, delphiniums, hostas and maigolds in my greenhouse, with the door shut, and if they trespass, they will find slug pellets. SORRY.
have you tried nematodes? they worked for me 100%
Second-hand info, but I shall try it! A friend told me she was puzzled by the lack of slugs in her garden . Last year, to boot! Then she became friendly with the new neighbour, an Asian lady who said it was due to the very large number of garlic plants that she grows next door to my friend. Apparently her garden is full of flowers, the garlic just pops up in between, so it doesn't look ugly. She cooks loads of the green leaves , not waiting for bulbs to form. So I see no need to buy expensive garlic to experiment with this: I'm going to pop supermarket cloves all over the place and see what happens. Anyone else trid this?
i heard that the garlic works very well, so i will be trying this , if someone ever comes up with one item to keep them away they would make a fortune, but i agree slug pellets are not the way to go, i am lucky i have a toad in the garden so hopefully he will performe for his residental stay ?