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slugs on the run
primrosecottage
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Does anyone know if you have to boil the garlic then let it get cold? Does the mix keep?
Finally do the eggs die?
And final finally
will I just be chasing them around the garden
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The recipe I know is two whole heads of garlic crushed and boiled in 2 pints of water for 5 mins - leave to cool then strain and bottle. Use two teaspoons in a 1 pint hand sprayer. Don't spray when the sun is on the plants.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hi dove Did it kill them ?or have you added the chase into your fitness regime
It reduced the slug attacks on my plants - whether it killed the slugs or not I don't know - there weren't any slugs laying on their backs with their toes in the air.
I've not used it in this garden as we don't have too bad a slug problem (fingers crossed) but I may give it a go again this year on some of my hostas.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thanks guys
Perhaps I'll use it as a round up , and take out a mortgage to purchase some nematode
to get rid of the herd.
"chasing them around the garden" sounds like a good excuse not to join the Gym this year!!
I've never found garlic wash very successful against slugs, nor anything else very helpful to be honest. I grow alot of hostas in pots so you can imagine the slugs think this is the summer barbeque for them. The only thing I have found good is copper tape around the top of the pots - they don't cross that. The odd one climbs the wall and falls into the pot, but the tape has allowed me to continue with hostas when I had begun to think I could not have them any more.
Nematodes are great at the time, it is very hard work with all the dilutions, carrying of buckets etc., and they only work once. As nature abhors a vacuum, when your slugs have gone, all the neighbourhood ones move in soon after. I have used them for a particular patch that I might want clear for a few weeks for a special occasion, but quite honestly have given up on them.
Now I am confused
what about beer baths after a garlic wash 
their sure to want to clear that smell 
does anyone know of a Toad rescue I would willingly donate for a few and I would feed them well.
Thanks everyone I really am taking your advice on board
Your right V
I think it's the real answer. I find the process a little gruesome but a hunting I must go
Thanks for all your ideas everyone I will have a go at some of them, but slug safari might be the final answer. 