Your gardening questions answered: My garden is suffering very badly from snail and slug damage
Organically acceptable slug pellets will help to keep slug attacks at bay but are less effective during periods of heavy rain.
Organically acceptable slug pellets will help to keep slug attacks at bay but are less effective during periods of heavy rain as well as expensive to use on a wide scale. They’re also not recommended for very regular use as the iron they contain can discourage earthworm activity. Nematode control used to be another reliable option that organic gardeners could avail of but unfortunately hasn’t been available for several years, both for technical reasons as well as because of Brexit.
Michael Palin on the loss of his wife of 57 years: ‘you feel you’ll never have a friend as close as that’This year I’m also going to try using a homemade garlic spray on the recommendation of a gardening friend who swears by it. He pops garlic cloves into a lidded bucket of water and then applies the liquid every couple of weeks to vulnerable plants as a diluted foliar feed, using a watering can.
Ornamental perennial species that are especially vulnerable to slug and snail attack include hosta, delphinium, echinacea, dahlia, ligularia and lobelia. If you’re determined to grow any of these, then you’ll need to take especially good care of the plants, especially as they emerge from the ground when they’re at their most tasty and succulent. Shrubs are generally much more resilient, but some species are vulnerable when they’re very young including magnolia.
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