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I've just read in a gardening magazine that dried lavender flowers and leaves sprinkled around plants is a successful slug/snail deterrent.  This is a new one on me but I think it's worth a try.  What do you think?

G x

I think I'll try that, georgie..I've plenty of dried lavender flowers and just planted some lettuce, that'll be a test for them  ;D

Its a new one on me too!! Is it the fact that the lavendar once dried is rough to the feel of a slug and they dont like it ? or is it the scent.? Anytihing is worth trying. I read that bran was really successful around plants as slug protection. It got one of the highest marks in a trial.

Duke

It wasn't made clear except to say that the slugs/snails didn't seem to like moving on it.  I'm assuming it's the oils because I've never seen a slug or snail on my Lavender plants.

G x

Quote from: manicscousers on August 09, 2008, 14:52:38
I think I'll try that, georgie..I've plenty of dried lavender flowers and just planted some lettuce, that'll be a test for them  ;D

Hi Manics.  Could you set up a little trial and let us know the results i.e. some protected and some not? 

G x

I'll try but there are only 6 lettuce and they're quite close to one another, I'll see if I can split them in half  :)
will do it tomorrow

Quote from: manicscousers on August 09, 2008, 15:10:18
I'll try but there are only 6 lettuce and they're quite close to one another, I'll see if I can split them in half  :)
will do it tomorrow

Awww thanks, that'll be great if it's not too much trouble.   :)

G x

Wow I will have to cut and dry my lavender out and give it a try.  Have tried beer but the slugs just took their girlfriends out for a drink and then a meal on my veg.

Quote from: lottie lou on August 09, 2008, 15:42:34
Wow I will have to cut and dry my lavender out and give it a try.  Have tried beer but the slugs just took their girlfriends out for a drink and then a meal on my veg.

ROFL  ;D

G x

trial set up, don't have lots of trouble with slugs in the tunnel, too many frogs but will give it a go  ;D

i found out where good slugs go after they die ....my allotment they eat so much they must be in heaven ...wheres the pellets grrrrr

hiya, fatboyexmarine, welcome to the site  ;D
i think there's an epedemic of slugs and snails, took 7 from under 1 piece of netting today  :o

Great Manics, this should be interesting.  It struck me last night that if Lavender works then Rosemary might as well.  I'm going to try both next time I plant out something vulnerable.   :)

G x

well, we're away for 2 weeks from friday, maybe it'll protect them and I'll have some lettuce to pick when I'm back, the outside ones have been razed to the ground  :-\

Am gonna try it. I did put lavender oil down an ant run and it cleared them. You can learn something new every day

I am desperate for an affective eco friendly slugand snail killer. After finishing work at 1:30am i went out and killed 40 slugs did the same a week later. This was in addition to slug pelletts which i found attracted them but they then went on to eat my beans. I am told that they hate copper strips so i will try this on my raised beds

I have a book called "50 ways to kill a slug".   It's quite tongue in cheek but some of it's suggestions are quite useful.   At the moment I'm using the coffee approach.   I don't about the slugs but the cabbage whites have been conspicuous by their absence.

CC

Just to be clear I'm not out to kill slugs and snails, I just want to deter them from eating tender stuff.  On the whole I've got a pretty good balance in the garden now (after about three years of following organic principles) and I only kill anything as a last resort.  I haven't had any success with coffee grounds or copper tape as a barrier.

G x

If slugs don't like rough surfaces, has any one tried sandpaper around plants, like a collar, No idea if would work, just thought about it....!!

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Someone mentioned bran. I read that the way it works is that they eat the bran, it swells up inside them and they explode. Ho Hum...every cloud etc!

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