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Hi All, It is more than flesh and blood can stand, you envisage an ornamental grass border in the late summer with heleniums, achilleas and asters (all I love) wafting amongst the fluffy heads.  After 4 years of fighting the slug fight, I have given

I need help with what plants to choose. each year I spend a fortune just for the slugs to eat, or for them to die because soil is bad I need to know what plants I can buy that will survive both problems Maybe you might consider trying to improve

because the birds don’t expect the strawberries to be there, or maybe there are plenty of other fruits to get their beaks around.The same can’t be said of the molluscs, which are out in force, enjoying the unusually mild and moist conditions. The slugs

Sorry for the heading, couldn't help myself...   I have a large back garden which I am still working on (moved here a year ago), and as I have a dog who thinks the garden is his playground, I am wondering what I can do to control slugs and snails

this hosta is slug free by putting vaseline round the tub,slugs love hostas and ruin the look of them xx I think the slugs like the pale leaved/varigated ones, must be more tender. None of my dark leaved ones have been touched. What a beautiful

Hello, my slug problem is pretty huge even though I have all sorts of wildlife. I have started putting roughly crushed eggshells amongst and around my hostas in the hope that the slugs and snails won't like to manoevre through or past them. I save

we have got more slugs than year than any year before Make yourself a small pond, the frogs will eat them. Tried nematodes for the first time a couple of years ago and am now a convert! However, still have the problem of snails which need

I found these under an old planet pot not used for a few years. I want to know if they are leopard slugs or do I need to kill them now?     Look like them to me http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limax_maximus but I'm not an expert - anybody else

Despite a very dry start to the year where I had difficulty getting seeds to germinate, or plants to establish ( we don't have piped water on the allotments, and the captured water ran out very early), the end of the year has seen a massive slug

I can't believe I've just spent the last half hour wearing headtorch and spearing 35 slugs with a wooden skewer. These beasts are really getting to me this year. I think they are living in the soil in the cracks between the flags on the patio