Slugs!!!?
Question:Why is it that slugs only eat the plants you want and not the weeds??
Answers:
Weeds are very hardy,so they must have natural defences,one of which is possibly they taste nasty to slugs...
They are yucky,you need to encourage hedgehogs who love to eat them! Or if you're very mean pour salt on the litttle devils!
try susing slug pellets they work like a treat youy can buy them from any hgarden centre
get them drunk
Tell me about it, the love to try and chew my marigolds.
.Because lettuce and cabbage are the tastiest foods, EVER! especially lettuce.
same reason the weeds grow and the flowers and grass wither..! sods law..!
They like soft plants, and weeds are hard and often prickly.
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Weeds are natural to the area and have developed defensive tastes to deter slugs and snails. Most bedding plants come from other environments and do not have this built in protection.Some weeds are eaten by slugs. Common marigolds are not eaten (calendula) but African and french marigolds are eaten. I use little blue pellets to deter them.
annoying isn't it? in one container that I have they've left the bedding plants around the edge and eaten the feature plant in the middle!!
blue pellets did the trick!!
Leave a half pint of Guiness out near the veg that'll sort the little chaps out, they can escape but they get so drunk that they climb back in!
If you need to get rid of them, save all your egg shells from cooking and crush them by hand then skater them all around each plant you want to protect. The earth will get calium from the egg shells and the slugs will get cut up and die before they reach the plants!
Sprinkle cayenne pepper over your plants and flowers..the slugs will stay away and it will not harm your plants.
Well, here in Germany, we have these revolting huge brown Spanish slugs. They are gross, and eat everything, weeds ´n all. I curse those idiots who smuggled plants from their holidays in Spain and schlepped these icky creatures all over Europe. They are soo yucky!. They slither right past the pellets and attack the plants in masses. I have counted 5 on a poor little marigold. The plant does not have a chance ! It´s just that the weeds grow faster than the slugs can eat them - no wonder, with all this rain we are having!
I always try to grow plants that slugs don`t like. There are some nice ones. If you look at the things that they eat most and grow the others you will find that you still have good variey and are not poisonong thrushes and hedgehogs. -as happens with slug pellets.I heard a really good idea the other day. In the winter. put bits of old carpet in unobtrusive and sluggy type places foam side down. In the spring if you turn the carpet over it will be covered in slugs whch you can deal with as you wish. Anyone got a good slug recipe?
Not tried it yet but sounds good to me.
put a plate of beer out for them and they well not eat your plants
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