Are there any plants slugs and snails DON'T like?

Wig

Put bannana skins out aswell, then you can either just pick up the skins and transport them to a far away location or you can kill all the slugs on them and put the skins back to catch more.

Beer in pots has to be the easiest method as you don't have to go out and pick them up/kill them at night. But the pots should be placed so the lip is 1cm above ground level, then beetles won't fall in there.

marleyboy

Slugs and snails dont like copper, you can buy copper strips and copper plates for pots that deter them from the plants. Garden plants are better protected using ground eggshell surrounding the stem, slugs have difficulty crossing the shell, although it is not 100% effective, as one or two slugs will negotiate a path and other slugs will follow their trail to the plant, so its a good idea to replenish the eggshell every now and again.

Ultimately, salt and slug pellets are the ultimate killer for them, but salt will kill your plants if sprinkled around the stem.

Beer bottles with a drab of beer\ale\Guinness left in the bottom and pushed half way into the ground revealing the bottle neck are excellent slug traps. The slugs just love the smell of beer and will happily make there way over to the bottle, choosing to forego any plants for the irresistible smell of the beer. Once they slide down the bottle to the source, there is no way out for them.

cootambear

gravel

they dont like their watery slime path interrupted

ladylouise62

2 things recommended here - onions and lilies, I've had both chomped by snails. All of my shallots got chewed last year although I only had about 8.

cubegame

Judging on our garden, they seem to avoid weeds.

Leif

cubegame wrote: »

Judging on our garden, they seem to avoid weeds.

You beat me to it. I was going to suggest Bindweed, dandelions, nettles, and so on.

I have loads of flints in my garden, and I have removed the larger ones from some beds. So I am using them to create a wall around pot plants as protection against slugs. Perhaps you could surround borders with flints? I have no idea if this works, just a guess! It couild also be that the undersides create a nice home for slugs. Oops!

Soot2006

Lavender seems to be the only safe thing in my garden ,,,

I have resorted to the animal-friendly pellets ... Well, friendly to non-slug/snail animals -- Last year I lost everything!

sammyroser

You can get organic animal friendly pellets which you just sprinkle everywhere and that stops all slugs and snails. (think I got mine from homebase)

Or if you have a particular plant you want to keep safe a ring of coffee grounds (not the instant kind) do the trick, slugs hate caffeine and it won't do any harm to your plants unlike salt, however won't work in the rain.

Egg shells broken up also work, they can't stand the spikiness and as it breaks down it feeds your plants with lots of calcium.

Another option is copper, it gives slugs electric shocks so they run the other way, you can buy copper tape to go round plant pots too. Best thing about the copper is it works in the rain!

Melissa22_Mum

Wig wrote: »

Foxgloves
Monks Hood/Wolfsbane
Sidalcea
Sedum
Lavender
Hardy Geraniums
Snow in Summer
bleeding hearts
Kaffir Lily
Granny's Bonnet
Flag Iris
Siberian Iris
saxifrage
Penstemon
Rose
Anenome Japonica
Circium Rivulare (once it has survived one year it will carry on regardless of slugs attacking it)

All these plants do well in my garden, I don't bother with slug killers, I work on the principle if it survives, it stays, and there are LOADS of slugs and snails in my garden, some of them are innocent and they just eat whatever they are finding on a wall - they crawl around the wall all night and don't even go near a plant, they must be finding something there to eat

Thank you all so much for your advice. It seems to be getting rare to have practical advice without arguements starting on here!

I've quoted the above as it's a good list. Thanks:j

I actually got it a bit wrong, it was Verbena not Lobelia but they have had a little go at the ground level leaves but left the shoot that's striving for freedom!

Our house is newly rented with mostly gravel/stones but there is an area where the soil is sectioned off.

We have a HUGE Camellia at the back of the garden the leaves are yellowing and there seemed to be what looked like cigarette burns in one of the flowers petals. Only one but it was rather peculiar, any ideas on why that may be would be helpful:D
It seems to be growing new buds and shoots so I'm not very concerned and it looks as though it was pruned before we moved in. Is there anything I could do for it or is it best left alone considering it is so big and no harm seems to have prevented it from growing so far!

Leif

Melissa22_Mum wrote: »

Thank you all so much for your advice. It seems to be getting rare to have practical advice without arguements starting on here!

I'm sorry, but I really will take issue with that. What a stupid remark.