Eeek. Have just discovered why the pellets of slug bait keep disappearing from the pots outside my back door. It seems the local mice population enjoy them as a tasty treat. Will be removing the remaining ferric phosphate pellets ASAP!! Prefer slugs and snails to mice cheekily staring at me through the back door anyday!
I have just done an experiment in companion planting by planting sage or salvia amongst my brassicas along with scattering egg-shells at their roots and my broccoli seem to be thriving much better as slugs and snails don't like sage apparently. The ones left without sage have been eaten to a skeleton. I also have a wall of chives along my brocolli to deter aphids and enhance flavour.
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Does bran attract mice?
I have just done an experiment in companion planting by planting sage or salvia amongst my brassicas along with scattering egg-shells at their roots and my broccoli seem to be thriving much better as slugs and snails don't like sage apparently. The ones left without sage have been eaten to a skeleton. I also have a wall of chives along my brocolli to deter aphids and enhance flavour.