Photo: Plants with thick skin like this Agave 'americana variegata' have a bit of protection from pesky slugs.
( Click on the title to get to the BBC link of 92 slug resistant plants)
With all this talk of mulching, some people have expressed their concern over the increasing slug population; this need not be a problem as the salt in the seaweed could help keep them down. Wood ash would help, or any of the standard methods, like drowning them in beer or throwing them over the fence.
One remedy to this annual problem would be to put in plants that slugs wont touch. Now I’m not too sure whether there are really any plants that a hungry slug wouldn’t eat but they obviously favour some plants to others.
With all this talk of mulching, some people have expressed their concern over the increasing slug population; this need not be a problem as the salt in the seaweed could help keep them down. Wood ash would help, or any of the standard methods, like drowning them in beer or throwing them over the fence.
One remedy to this annual problem would be to put in plants that slugs wont touch. Now I’m not too sure whether there are really any plants that a hungry slug wouldn’t eat but they obviously favour some plants to others.
There is an AtoZ list of slug resistant plants at the www.bbc.co.uk/radio4 website. There are 92 different plants in the list, and most of them are pretty common. Here are a few to get you started.
Ajuga-groundcover for alpine beds
Astilbe-popular herbaceous plant with attractive plumes.
Choisya-fragerent, evergreen shrub.
Poached egg plant- good groundcover, attracts hoverflies.Pinks (dianthus) flower all summer
Horticultural.
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