What plants DON'T slugs like to eat?

[stainesmassif]

I have major slug snail population, not prepared to put poison down, but am really fed up with buying expensive slug food most weekends!

Ps, Geraniums seem to be safe

Lollo Rosso, the only lettuce I grow as the gastropods leave it alone.

Scissors!! you are tough, ladybiscuit. penstemons? never heard of 'em. will research.

ds loves picking snails out of the shrubbery, but has a tendency to mash them into his eyebrows.

Dread to think what LadyBiscuit would do to squirrels

i love penstemons.
previously they would have fallen into my mental category of 'foxgloves crossed with snapdragons'.

I shout Oi squirrel no! As does my DS, very enthusiastically

I live in the middle of London so there isn't anywhere I can take them. And my neighbours either side of me aren't gardeners so I know if I chuck them over the walls, they'll be straight back again.

Penstemons are brilliant stainesmassif (love the name btw) - they repeat flower all summer, you can cut them down to the ground pretty much in autum and they are really easy to propogate

Don't think slugs or squirrels would go anywhere near this Plant

I also grow 'sacrificial' plants that I know will be completely destroyed (French marigolds, pak choi - unfortunately) but the little blighters usually then leave my other plants alone.

When I find slugs and snails in the bed I pick them out and put them in the compost bin. They may as well do something useful and it's a happy well fed death they go to...

interesting approach glacier chick!

Put a small amount of beer into a plastic butter box, they absolutely love it and can’t get out

Leave a damp piece of cardboard by the vulnerable plants over night then collect the molluscs that'll be sheltering underneath it. You can put them in a bucket of water and washing up liquid to kill them if there's no less lethal option.

However, I've heard NASASALT. Some are detritivores and (apparently) only eat dead vegetation. Others, actually predate other slugs. There are one or two species of slug that have a vestigial shell that will nom other slugs (but they're quite rare) and leopard slugs are supposed to eat other slugs too.

You can buy nematodes to use during the summer that will kill slugs but, I believe, they don't affect snails. I've never tried them.

You can also try beer traps. Rather than booze though I make a cheaper alternative. Put water in an 2 ltr plastic bottle, tablespoon of flour, tbsp sugar, tsp yeast, leave several hours with the lid off (so it doesn't burst), then add a squirt of washing up liquid as a wetting agent. Use this overnight in the slug/snail traps. Empty them regularly because they absolutely reek if they're left.