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I've been using copper tape and slug rings for a while and they're pretty effective. Untill a slug absailed in and attacked a canna this morning! But I've been reading that couch grass is toxic to slugs, and that cutting it, drying it, then using

A guy from the Hosta society passed on a good tip to ward off the slugs and snails from your hostas -hair.  Hair has barbs on the strands and the slugs do not like to cross it. I keep trimming a quarter inch off my fringe and sprinkling it around

please help. @Tea-Rose, i'm no expert but i'm not sure if its true about the slugs cutting themselves, i saw a programme on t.v last week & the guy said that slugs could crawl over the edge of a razor blade without cutting themselves as they don

Hi i have just moved into a huge house with a huge garden & decided i would like to grow my own fruit & veg so we dug out my little allotment got planting and all was doing great but now everything is growing well the slugs and snails have decided

-a-minute- plant right up to the roof, when we cut it down, the whole wall was covered with slugs and snails!! Ugggg ............... They do walk up our brick columns to get into the hanging baskets, and the water butt to throw themselves into the hostas (there

in to get some colour.  Ive bought lavender to attract the bees but wondered if anyone had any ideas? - i've lost so many to slugs and our clay over the years. I have clay soil (old brickworks next door) and Japanese Anemone grows well, but they do seem

predator of slugs so you are not introducing any chemicals

A cheap tip that works,without harming anything, put a ring of vaseline around your tubs now to prevent slugs,weavels and ants getting at your plants,i also put a ring around the fruit trees to stop the coddling moth crawling up and infesting

i wanted to ask a simple question about lavender. cutting the heads - will this encourage more growth or is that it once the heads have been cut ? any replies gratefully received if there are any links to read about this i would be grateful for as wellthank you Hi my name Darre...

I found these two little carmers in the garden this a.m. I put a pencil next to one so thet you can see the size. Are they the Spanish Slug?     Not an expert, but I don't think so.  These look a bit like leopard slugs to me, but I wouldn't like