The only plants that grew in my garden this year were...

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Fuscia and geraniums ! Everything else flopped. I'm not very good with names but spent over £150 on various flowers and plants including busy lizzies, marigolds etc all in containers and all eaten by slugs or just dead.

What's grown reliably and successfully in your garden this (weird weathered) summer and survived infestation of slugs ?

Oh gosh! Did you do your research? Have you been watering when not raining?

My roses are pretty hardy and flower March - November. Hydrangeas do well in the ground (not pots!) I tend to only buy things that come back year after year, I don’t have the energy to be replanting every year

If you have any perennials which havent thrived, dont give up on them, this year we have some things which are alooking really good but we planted them 3 years ago and only this year are they really thriving. I have a feeling sometimes they take time to bed in

I dont like annuals to be honest.

I slug pick at 10 ish and again a littte later to remove them. They definitely get fewer after a week or so but pick up again after a water or rain.

I've tried most things except for a 9v current and actually removing works the best.

I don't bother with annuals either. Much prefer perennials or evergreens

Slugs absolutely decimated my sunflowers BUT one of them has just flowered, miraculously. Was very pleased to see! 🌻

My begonias are doing well. I think because they're fleshy they tend to cope a bit better with changes in the weather.

I don’t have a garden but I do have a new-ish allotment and have recently been doing a LOT of googling ‘slug resistant plants’!
Geranium Rozanne planted last year came back and is flowering happily so I bought three more. Rose bushes are doing nicely. I feel it’s too early to comment on my newer purchases, and won’t comment on all the plants that didn’t make it. RIP.

It's not just you, down at my allotment everyone has been struggling. Potatoes are fine, but the slugs have gone for pretty much everything else. And because it was so cold, everything is really slow.

Perennials are okay in the garden, but annuals are not. Nothing I sowed direct in the soil germinated at all.

Oh and yes to growing perennials not annuals. Except tomatoes, sugar snap peas and nasturtiums (not eaten too much by slugs) and sweet peas (monstered by the slugs but one has survived to flower!).

My sweet peas, I've grown them in a pot for several years, have never been troubled by slugs. Dahlias in pots right by them were getting so decimated I'm actually bringing them in at night. But dahlias in pots at the front of the house are only lightly nibbled.

Everything I've grown from seed has been slow. I've put that down to the cold and poor quality of the compost I'd bought.

I have a lovely crop of slugs. Really gorgeous. So proud.

Very poor germination of annuals ( except for some I planted in the autumn that the slugs didn't fancy). Perennials not that great either but coming away now. Hardy geraniums, roses and foxgloves all good.

😂😂😂

The slugs have been horrendous this year. Absolutely bloody horrendous. Ravenous, insatiable, razor-teethed slimy fucks. I really need to look at ways of managing them as everything in the garden has been decimated.

We have a geranium in our garden that is the only thing that has survived in our totally shaded border. It's spread so wide and has so many flowers. I didn't write down its name other than "geranium" have been wondering what type it was. I think you're just solved the mystery for me, thank you so much!

Geums, Geranium, Bergenia, Erigeron, ferns all surviving.

😂

Slug food, apparently.

Sajacas I admire your positivity 😂

Begonias and geraniums like others have fared well. Seedlings nope, not helped by crap compost. Calibrachoa and petunias pretty much a write off. I love the latter but I'm not keen to splash out again next year for them.

I bought a 6-cell tray of petunias. Left them a couple of days because it was chucking it down and I didn't fancy potting up in the rain. Came back a couple of days later to 6 bare stems. Absolutely shredded.

Bloody slugs.

Nasturtiums have added some much needed colour.

All the stuff that’s been in years has been ok, with the exception of one of the three Astrantias. I’m being super careful with new introductions, but nasturtiums and lobelia are ok so far, as is lithospermum. On the other hand, a thyme got chomped to almost total destruction on the first night

The only things that have done well so far (everything is a few weeks behind schedule) are self- seeded things like nigella, ammi, aquilegia, snapdragons, various grasses. The lavender looks lovely right now. The dahlias, zinnias and cosmos have been annihilated by the aforementioned slimy plant munchers.

😂 a hundred times me too.

My mind is set for next year though.

Nematodes and diatomaceous earth. (No slug pellets because we have pets/children etc).

Never needed to try before but this year has been horrendous.

Off the top of my head, thinking about what's worked and what hasn't so you get an idea for better "slug protected" results yourself in the future

Newly germinated Snap Dragons have thrived. Just flowering now.
Penstemon are looking good (but v late so haven't flowered as of yet)
Papaver came out and looked stunning and are just fading now.
Campanula is great, looking nice right now,
Astilbe, great,
Primroses lasted forever in spring and were great.
^ these are all perennial mind you.

Begonias are looking good

Potatoes, fine
Pumpkins fine
Strawberries, fine
Leeks, onions, chives all fine,
Peas, alright but a bit more manky than usual

What have been destroyed this year because of slugs:
All the Sunflowers,
Marigolds - hopeless
All of the Petunias,
All Cosmos
All fennel
All Courgette
All Cucamelon (first attempt at growing)
Verbena - gone
Dahlias -- gone 😭 dahlias are perennial too.

They even ate the freaking Rhubarb this year which is full of holes. They never touch that normally.

I slug pick all the fucking time but it's a total invasion this year, and (Stealth boast) I don't have time to go over the entire garden every night.

Creeping phlox and ajuga (bugle) both good. I forgot I had the phlox, it did nothing last year and I was surprised to rediscover it!

I've got a pumpkin seedling that I was resigned to losing. It had slug slime all over its first set of true leaves but nary a nibble.

The slimy fuckers ate my foxgloves. I thought they didn’t like them. Clearly they do. Bastards.

Almost everything has been decimated by them this year. Got some lovely crops of cat shit though due to all the bare soil available.

Smells divine. Not.