Slug alert
14 July 2010
Watch out for slugs and snails munching on your favourite plants, warns Royal Horticultural Society experts.
Wet weather means these top-rated garden pests will be on the move and hungry. Both slugs and snails will have been dormant in the recent and prolonged dry period. Hosta plants will be particularly vulnerable.
The RHS suggests a number of ways to protect plants.
- Water in a new batch of nematodes (Nemaslug) as any distributed previously will have died in the dry soil.
- Barriers, such as copper tapes round pots or mineral granules and egg shells sprinkled around plants discourage slugs and snails getting to your plants.
- Alternatively, proprietary slug pellets containing ferric phosphate or metaldehyde can be used.
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