ENJOYING BRUNNERAS LIKE JACK FROST HERE IN CORNWALL ONTARIO CANADA IN WHAT WE CALL ZONE 5 (sort of meaning that it doesn't go below -29 degrees or if it did then perhaps only for one night. snow or other mulch protection really helps perennials but not woody things. Just telling - Raven Van Leishout
If a garlic solution works, would it make a difference as a companion plant? I didn't know about the season for growing garlic, and it was available as growing bulbs in a store near me, so I planted some a couple of weeks ago. Just wondered if it would work as a companion plant with my cabbages?
I have just relented and bought a trampoline for my kids. The lawn will have to come out and I didn't really want to put just bark in its place. Has anyone got any ideas of shade loving plants to put underneath? Preferably plants that won't need any attention and will stay low to the ground in case of battering from above!
I have just read that the way the garlic solution works is that it is absorbed by the plant and thus makes it taste nasty to the slugs and snails so they don't come back again. This would explain why some of you found the slimy Bs on your plants, they were obviously visiting for the first time! I am going to give it a go as I have lost all my first planting of peppers and I also read that if you add dishwash liquid it also keeps aphids away too! Oh, and apparently it dies not affect the taste of any fruit or vegetable from plants sprayed with it!
I know that the French eat garlic with snails, but did I hear right, that you can boil garlic and use the water diluted to water hostas? To keep the pest from turning the leaves into lace!
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Oh, and apparently it dies not affect the taste of any fruit or vegetable from plants sprayed with it!