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Are there any plants slugs and snails DON'T like?
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I have found chard in its many forms to be virtually bomb proof, the slugs don't seem to like it around here and it throws off overwatering/underwatering, frost baking heat etc etc. I am growing 3 different types of it this year-yellow, white and the mixed coloured (bright lights). When small they add interest to salads, a bit bigger and they go whole into soups/stews then when really big chop the stems separately to the leaves and I use the stems like celery in the base veg mix for soups/stews/sauces and the leaves go in later like spinach.
Plus the chickens love it and get the extras lol.
I use egg shells everywhere as we have a lot of eggs form having chickens or coffee grounds as we love our coffee here. As well as letting the chickens do a bit of free ranging when the beds are more empty during the winter months-they dig up the eggs and the slugs and gobble them up.
Having read about slugs some would seem not to be bad. There are some caniverous ones that eat other slugs (yay) and some that only eat rotting vegitation. The little ones seems to be the worst. Maybe the collecting them up is the best way as you can target the ones eating your plants and the others which aren't a problem carry on.
Ali x"Overthinking every little thing
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I agree with bleeding heart that wig mentioned.
That is really thriving in my front garden where as some lupine I planted the other week have been chomped into oblivion and the delphinium is not faring too well either.
Camellias do well and I also have a couple of peonies faring nicely too.Here dead we lie because we did not choose
To live and shame the land from which we sprung.
Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose,
But young men think it is,
And we were young.
A E Housman0
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