Question

Planted my basil out yesterday and slugs have eaten half of it any tips please?  

Answer 1

Report them for not self isolating lol

Answer 2

The only thing I have found that works is to make a garlic spray xxx

Answer 3

Crushed egg shells

Answer 4

Slug pellets

Answer 5

Copper tape

Answer 6

Salted egg shells or just egg shells.  

Answer 7

Copper pipes

Answer 8

Crushed eggshells all around the plant?  

Answer 9

If you have 1ps and 2ps place around plants

Answer 10

A wee bit early for Basil to be out! Best on a window or cold frame!  

Answer 11

traps

Answer 12

I've heard placing straw around your plants can deter them?  

Answer 13

Crushed egg shells or short cut human hair. They dont like the feel of it on their bellies. not that I talk to slugs.  

Comments

Tricia, you can talk to slugs as long as you’re 2 metres apart  

Answer 14

Lay onoin slices around it apparently the smell puts them off‍♀️

Answer 15

Ducks eat slugs, just saying

Answer 16

Thank you everyone  

Answer 17

I prefer not to use chemical slug pellets as I believe that they poison the food chain, so I have been using wool pellets and I cannot recommend them highly enough. I have some hostas in my garden, which are usually a slugs' and snails' banquet, but surrounded by wool pellets the slugs and snails have kept off them. There is something in sheep's wool that is a major irritant to slugs and snails so they won't cross the pellets.  

Answer 18

Use trays of beer

Answer 19

Slugs will come from miles away for basil, get it back inside or there be none left tomorrow, TBH you lucky they didn't finish the lot in one night

Answer 20

It’s a bit early for Basil to be outside. A frost and you will lose it.  

Answer 21

Keep your eggshells and crush them. Spread them around anything you're growing x

Answer 22

Or keep yoghurt pots, fill them with beer, Bury them under with the tops level to the soil x

Answer 23

Some beer Haha

Answer 24

Slighty boiled, add salt season and nice glass merlot?  

Answer 25

Beer. They will drown themselves in a saucer of beer. Also Diatomaceous Earth.  

Answer 26

Too early to put plants that could be vulnerable or destroyed by pests try a loose net or small gravel stones slugs won’t travel through stones or even some salt around the container

Answer 27

Kill them all . and keep killing them . it took me three years of constant killing them at least 10 a day . pellets salt copper strips gell even used some germ war. they come from gardens next to you. now I'm killing the baby snails. Snails breed all year round each time the snails lay dozens at least three times a year. That's what your up against.  

Comments

They happen to have a place in the gardens food chain . birds and reptiles and amphibeans all eat molluscs . bigger slugs also predate smaller ones . see the bigger picture And stop growing hostas delphiniums basil lupins etc

Answer 28

Broken eggshell or course gravel

Answer 29

Richard Jackson slug pellets are good. Not harmful to birds or children

Comments

@raymundorayna80605 but hedgehogs

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@acierate I'm sure they are hedgehog friendly too. I would need to double check

Answer 30

Egg shells crushed works well.  

Answer 31

Beer. To keep them away. and sprinkle diatomaceous earth

Answer 32

Coffee grounds

Answer 33

Dessert for seconds maybe? (Sorry )

Answer 34

Crushed egg shells round the pot/roots

Answer 35

May not be helpful, but i had the same problem, so screwed my pots to my fence a couple of feet off the ground. fooled them so far!  

Answer 36

Tobacco dust

Answer 37

Rub garlic cloves around tub if it's in 1 works great . I use it to protect my hostas

Answer 38

Our little pond is full of frogs

Answer 39

Don't plant it too early outside. Wait until mid- to late spring, when all danger of frost has passed and it's at least 50 degrees, but preferably 70 degrees. Don't plant basil outdoors in any spot where a previous basil plant has been infected with the fungal disease fusarium wilt.  

Answer 40

Dont plantanything before Easter

Answer 41

Eat the slugs. They've basically just stuffed themselves! Not too much salt though, or you'll the texture.  

Answer 42

Gravel and eggshell mix xx

Answer 43

Epson salt or egg shell

Answer 44

@straightaway  This 100% works  

Answer 45

Sit up at night with a torch and pick them off by hand , never fails good luck

Answer 46

Put Sybil next to it

Answer 47

Sharp sand or gravel round your plants

Answer 48

I leave my basil in the greenhouse away from slugs

Answer 49

Sometimes the only answer is to grow plants snail's and slugs do not like

Answer 50

Egg shell

Answer 51

Plant on Pots, Salt round Base

Answer 52

Most animals/bugs do not like ground hot pepper. also take a jar lid , put it in the basil or near. fill the lid with beer. slugs are attracted to it, drink and drown

Answer 53

Slug pellets around the base of the plant you can gt pet friendly ones

Answer 54

Grit and gravel round base - neither loved by the little shits!  

Answer 55

Put Vaseline around the top of the pot it stops them getting in

Answer 56

Egg shell around it

Answer 57

Is it in a pot? I grow my herbs on pots and put copper tape around the pots about 3/4 from top. That's if I out can get some!  

Answer 58

Anything sharp layered around. Copper sheeting as a small fence. Other plants they like as sacrifice

Answer 59

Eggshells xx

Answer 60

Put crushed eggshells around it x

Answer 61

Sink Beer in yougart pots next to the basil

Answer 62

Bring it back inside

Answer 63

Tell Sybil!  

Answer 64

Hanging baskets?