Slug and snail free plants

zarazara

my area is home to millions of slugs and snails,but we do have thrushes and they eat them. So i do not like to use slug pellets because of the birds. What plants,flowers,fruit,veg, do you grow which tend to do ok and not be gobbled into extinction by these pests? I do use copper rings but being expensive i cannot put them everywhere.

Mithos

zarazara wrote: »

my area is home to millions of slugs and snails,but we do have thrushes and they eat them. So i do not like to use slug pellets because of the birds. What plants,flowers,fruit,veg, do you grow which tend to do ok and not be gobbled into extinction by these pests? I do use copper rings but being expensive i cannot put them everywhere.

I feel your pain. Some years we have awful experiences with the slugs. :mad:

There are a few plants that they don't ever touch in our garden, rudbeckia's, Lavenders and the roses. Everything else normally gets a bite taken out.

We are lucky, one of neighbors a year or so back created a pond near one of the fences and although we kept jumping when fogs leaped out at us, last year most of the plants survived without much intervention.

paybacktime2008

Geraniums seem to be ok, not the bedding type, the perrenial type.

ERICS_MUM

I find that geraniums don't get nibbled, they do pong a bit so perhaps they don't taste nice to the slimy little critters :mad:

WestonDave

You can buy nematodes which will kill slugs without being a danger to other wildlife - you mix them up with water and spread them over the garden, from where they attack the slugs. Not sure how well they work on snails but snails are easier to pick up and lob somewhere like the garage roof for the birds to feed on!

purplepixi

There's a tutorial on http://myzerowaste.com/, which shows you how to cut up old plastic bottles to use as plant collars to stop the slugs and snails. The pointy bits of the plastic stop the slugs from crossing over the collar to the plants.

ginvzt

From my experience - slugs do not touch tomatoes...

Kimitatsu

You could also offer to adopt a hedgehog from the local wildlife rescue - we have 3 big hogs in our gardens and have no slugs whatsoever. A friend of mine takes in the babies in the autumn that are too small to survive and then in the spring they look for safe sites to release them back into, once you get them there, if you put a hedgehog box up in about June then it doesnt smell new by the time they hibernate so they will over winter in your garden.

Very cheap (and green) alternative!

chrisaj

I found that if you dry out your t bags and then sprinkle a couple of drops of eucalyptus on them, then scatter around the garden, you'll find that the slugs won't go near them. This doesn't kill them, so the birds/hedgehogs etc can still eat them.;) It rids your garden of them, but next door then gets them :rotfl:

peter_the_piper

Arum Lilies seem to be immune plus you can plant them more or less anywhere, wettest bog to normal border-even in a pond or stream.

Aries

purplepixi wrote: »

There's a tutorial on http://myzerowaste.com/, which shows you how to cut up old plastic bottles to use as plant collars to stop the slugs and snails. The pointy bits of the plastic stop the slugs from crossing over the collar to the plants.

Thanks a useful site.
it also mentions that used Coffee grounds as a repellent Slugs and Snails,
also it mentions that it is a repellent for CATS.
Its worth a try.