Yuck

[littlemeitslyn]

Am knee deep in slugs 😿 is anyone else !!?
I'm slugs

Yep, I’m also organic! Garden is very damp though, it’s a slug paradise. The small brown slugs do a lot of damage in my pots, so don’t believe “if it’s brown, put it down” tbh.

Bob and Pigeon Have you tried the "vaseline around the tops of the pots" trick? that works and also the caffienated coffee grounds around your fave plants, it's good for the plants too. The slugs hate it!!

I'm wondering why they're not here any more, there are more iizards now maybe they like them (I'm in mid west Fr.) It is a dry garden ,sandy and quite alkili . Plenty of birds too .

Re the coffee grounds, I went into Costa and asked them for a bag of grounds to spread on my flower bed for slugs and spread it generously around my plants expecting never to see a slug again. They seemed to love them though and especially when it was wet it attracted so many

Oh sorry cardamon You obviously have caffiene addicted slugs !! I suppose you could collect them and sling them in the compost !

I remember trying beer traps but I forgot them and either they had attracted the hedgehogs who ate them or they drank the beer. Then went off drunk!

James Wong says that caffeine is not good for your plants (although we still chuck coffee grounds into the compost- I figure it’s diluted out by other stuff)
www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/oct/23/coffee-grounds-are-not-good-for-plants-its-a-myth

And I’m jealous of your soil peaty! I love my garden but heavy, wet acidic soil is a bit of a nightmare.

You need loads of gritty compost to help it pigeon ref. caffiene for plants, I have given my indoor plants and outdoor pot plants (oh sorry also monthly for the garden plants too) a feed of 1\4 coffee and or tea dregs and rain water for many, many years and haven't changed their compost either , they couldn't be happier .

I was even giving them, the left standing for a few days, washing up water when my rainwater supply had dried up during the hose pipe ban here, mixed with the coffee dregs oh and sometimes my nettle feed too!!!!

IMO and E James Wong is Wong , I even put the whole contents of the cat's litter tray in the compost bins and it's great because it's basically only clay, so for my soil it's ideal because in the pots and mixed with the light soil ( I have the opposite problem to you pige it 'hangs' on to the water.

that made me laugh! I don’t think there’s enough grit in the world to improve my soil so we’re going with the compost/no dig strategy which seems to be working. That and growing masses of primulas!

Now you see I envy you your primulas , I love them but they don't like my light soil. I am trying to grow fpxgloves too with no luck. Because the moisture refuses to stay for long enough to allow germination. No dig is THE BEST! I only dig holes when I plant, ( I planted some rudbeckias yesterday) That reminds me I must get on with planting this year's bulbs etc.