SLUG-FREE PLANTS
Last post 01-08-2005 3:00 PM by miranda. 41 replies.
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05/07/2005 11:17 AM
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DOES ANYONE KNOW WHICH PLANTS DON'T GENERALLY GO FOR, PLEASE?
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05/07/2005 06:55 PM
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Eh?
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Ow! My most of me!
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06/07/2005 06:24 AM
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- ljlukas
- 23 Dec 2004
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generally no worries with society garlic
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06/07/2005 08:41 AM
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- ken69
- Norfolk UK
- 23 Nov 2004
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Slugs like succulent eating,think lettuce and hosta,so... I suppose, any plant that is abrasive, e.g. thistle related, plus euphorbia for it's poisonous sap, any stem that is hairy . Have you ever seen a slug sitting on a hedgehog's back.Proof enough.
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06/07/2005 10:22 AM
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I don't know whether plants that are poisonous or irritant to us are also bad for slugs but certainly my hellebores have never been touched nor foxgloves.
I don't think they touch the grasses either.
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12/07/2005 09:20 AM
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- abigail
- 22 May 2005
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slugs seem to go for different things in different gardens - mine don't touch the lettuces but eat the artichokes, which are a kind of thistle...
but they difinitely don't seem to eat tough leaves like irises, lavender, gladioli, crocosmia. hairy leaves too as someone said - lychnis coronaria, verbascum.
and they don't seem to do much harm to the marguerites I've got either.
also try things with too many leaves to finish off - like lady's mantle, outdoor geraniums (well and the indoor kind as well!) bushy things.
hope that helps.
abigail
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12/07/2005 11:32 AM
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- miranda
- Oxfordshire
- 17 Nov 2004
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Ken, the slugs ate my hairy leaved poppy down to the ground and also made a start on a hairy leaved Rudbeckia.
They seem particularly voracious this year and I've resorted to collecting them by hand at night. The beer traps haven't cut it, and we don't use slug pellets, so it's the only way to control them. If I hadn't collected them, they'd have eaten half the garden by now.
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12/07/2005 08:50 PM
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Slugs ate my sea holly!
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Ow! My most of me!
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12/07/2005 10:23 PM
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and they've attacked a big datura plant... I thought that was pretty poisonous.
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22/07/2005 12:40 PM
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- pen
- 31 Mar 2005
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they ate my foxgloves this year and have eaten hellebores in the past.Irises down to the ground. I've tried a new environmentally friendly pellet by "growing success" and although I haven't seen any dead'uns, my bean plants weren't touched, so I guess they must work......... and even better in wet weather!
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22/07/2005 01:45 PM
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- Rob
- 06 Jun 2005
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I thought that slugs would leave thistles alone because of their spikyness, and once put some uprooted ones down to protect lettuce plants - only to find snails (which are more of a problem in my area) feeding on them, between the spines! I subsequently learnt that many thistles are quite edible (bar the spines), some thistle stems are sposed to be very nice steamed.
Which leads me to suppose that planting 'sacrfice' crops might be one of the best ways of preventing damamge.
Anyway, I think the general rule is that slugs & snails can go for pretty much anything green, particularly if it's young & lush. Of course they prefer some things to others, but I guess it's just a case of what's available.
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22/07/2005 05:23 PM
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- ken69
- Norfolk UK
- 23 Nov 2004
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Like I posted somewhere else, we've got to make them valuable to someone, a niche market here, chop them up, freeze 'em, and sell as bird food.Kids could collect them and sell to a local processor for pocket money.
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22/07/2005 05:43 PM
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Why should you get anti slug proof plants! Try the following!!!!
I am currently cutting up copper scourers into collars to place around my courgettes, and read in a gardening magazine copper is a slug repellent and have actually undone some copper scourers and am going to crochet them (chain from) and place around my plants (much to the amusement of my partner) who thinks I AM OFF MY ROCKER
If you have access to hundreds of eggshells you can scatter crushed eggshells (LOTS) AROUND PLANTS
We have slug batting competitions with a bat (short handled badminton type)this keeps childrren amused for hours hunting for slugs, make sure they wear gloves, slime is very hard to get off ones hands. A bucketful of slugs is collected and then batted over our common land at the top of the garden.
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25/07/2005 01:43 PM
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- Obelix
- Belgium
- 24 Nov 2004
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I find they don't eat aconitum/monkshood, phlomis russelliana, catmint, Japanese anemones, hardy geraniums and heucheras. They also seem to leave comfrey and pulmonaria alone.
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25/07/2005 03:34 PM
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- miranda
- Oxfordshire
- 17 Nov 2004
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"They also seem to leave comfrey and pulmonaria alone."
Not here they don't, Obelix. Our comfrey and Pulmonaria have all been chewed. Some of the Pulmonaria has been eaten down to the ground.
I quite like freckledfrog's idea of slug-batting. Here I practice flinging them, (over-arm, like in cricket) into the woods across the road and can now get them quite a way into the trees. If you wear leather gloves, they don't stick as badly as with plastic ones.
Ken, any recommendations for who to approach for your bird food idea? You never know, it could just work!
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