It seems the battle is starting again, I have just picked off a green caterpillar from a surviving geranium in the raised flower bed this afternoon. Also slugs are starting to crawl out from under folliage, etc. When I find a slug in its shell I chuck it on the lawn and the crows then pick it up and proceed to bash it on the roof of my house. I dont know whether to like crows or not as they make a racket and can damage the tiles. Maybe the best thing is to grow plants and flowers the slugs dont like, such as Flag Irises, Bergena, rock roses, etc. But they will eat anything given the chance. I am going to put lots of tins containing beer around the place and drown the pests.
I grow low slug-attracting plants such as hostas in hanging baskets or clay pots - best if sited on rough gravel. Cover the surrounding soil surface with lots of scratchily off-putting mulch, like crushed eggshells.
My can of WD40 has pictures of uses for it, one of them being spray round the outside of plant pots to prevent slugs, (and I'm guessing snails, too,) climbing up them.
I haven't put it to the test, but lets face it, the smell alone would put anything off coming anywhere near! Hmmm, wonder if it works as well as mothballs do against my cats using the pots as litter trays......
I bought a calla lily..it was gorgeous...planted it out and low and behold the bulb was totally annihilated by Sid the Slug, pretty peeved...the lily cost me a few bob...
ANYWAY on a positive note...COSMOS, MARGERITES (not sure how to spell this) do well, i havent had any slimey slug probs with these...
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It seems the battle is starting again, I have just picked off a green caterpillar from a surviving geranium in the raised flower bed this afternoon. Also slugs are starting to crawl out from under folliage, etc. When I find a slug in its shell I chuck it on the lawn and the crows then pick it up and proceed to bash it on the roof of my house. I dont know whether to like crows or not as they make a racket and can damage the tiles. Maybe the best thing is to grow plants and flowers the slugs dont like, such as Flag Irises, Bergena, rock roses, etc. But they will eat anything given the chance. I am going to put lots of tins containing beer around the place and drown the pests.
I haven't put it to the test, but lets face it, the smell alone would put anything off coming anywhere near! Hmmm, wonder if it works as well as mothballs do against my cats using the pots as litter trays......
I love the smell of WD40
I have more snails than slugs in this new garden so I chuck 'em over the fence into the road and let them take their chances with the traffic
If I'm feeling kind I put them in the compost bin though!
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I bought a calla lily..it was gorgeous...planted it out and low and behold the bulb was totally annihilated by Sid the Slug, pretty peeved...the lily cost me a few bob...
ANYWAY on a positive note...COSMOS, MARGERITES (not sure how to spell this) do well, i havent had any slimey slug probs with these...
Hehehehe....