Slug and snail deterrents.

I like the cabbage necklace. It is a very easy method to use especially if you have large areas to protect from snails and slugs. Are you using dried garlic granules? Are you growing through sacking or some kind of netting in the veg plot ?

Thanks for a brill idea.

I will be buying some garlic salt tomorrow. I add garlic to water to get rid of greenfly.

I'm going to give those copper scourers a try!

Thank you for the great idea secondhand......you too Linda...:>)

Linda 235, I may be too late..................... not garlic salt.
I buy equine garlic powder / granules off the net, much cheaper by the KG than those little packs in the supermarkets.
Scots gran, I have an old scaffolding tower than I make a box round the bed with 9' x 9', then i use the debris netting round the sides, i tie the fruit cage netting over the top. No probs with the bigger pests. See extra photo for design.................... all secondhand and free.

Thanks for that extra good idea. MY OH said we should not throw out the old scaffolding tubes but as we had had them for 10 years plus and not found a use for them I thought we just had to let them go.

i never let anything go that has other uses. the only thing I would let go is the OM being as he's only useful on really fine days, but can't find a taker for him :-)

Send him up here I'm sure we'd find a use for him. The minute he goes you would find out how irreplacable he is.

I've packed his case, he's on route................:-)
NB, he's diabetic so needs feeding often and regularly. so not much different to house plant really. Mind you I don't spose i would like to live without the chatter nor the daily moans and groans about the health. Bless him. But the Hypo's I can definately live without.

i love your lady scarecrow, makes sense - dresses flap about a lot more than trousers to scare the birds.

I uderstand, like the rest of us you can't be without him lol.

The copper scourer is a good idea, and much cheaper than copper tape. One part of my garden (shaded by a wall) seems to be slug haven. They eat plants there that I am shocked that they touch such as Laurel, Hellebore and Foxgloves - really decimated the Foxgloves. Going to try the copper scourers round the veg - found some monster sized ones by the peas.

A friend emailed me this am to say she had thrown bread out for the birds. It was obviously too late in the day for the birds. This morning, when she opened her curtains, the snails looked like they were partying on the lawn. She reckoned there must have been 50+ snails and the bread had gone. I might try that. It will make them easier to pick off, to get rid of them.

scatterinjg bran is a very good cheap solution, Like the bread...................... but you will have to pick them off carefully, they gorge themselves, and if when collected u squeeze too hard, they burst......... :-)

Yuck!, but if it works its a better way of persuading them to come to mama. The shells are not that hard anyway as you can see from the shells broken by the thrushes on the stones around the garden.