How to Protect Garden Crops from Cats and Slugs: Here's What to Add to the Soil

06.04.2023 11:14

Snails and slugs are real enemies for many popular garden plants.

Thus, gastropods pose a serious danger to cabbage, potatoes and legumes.

If cats are often in the garden beds, then garden crops can also be damaged.

Fortunately, there is one simple remedy that will help scare away both small pests and pets from your garden.

What needs to be added to the soil

Ground coffee will come to the rescue. Moreover, it is advisable to use this product, not coffee grounds.

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Adding a loose agent to the soil gives an excellent result: both slugs and cats try to stay away from the beds.

There is a very simple explanation for this effect: coffee smells strong. Many people are delighted with this aroma. But pests, to put it mildly, do not like this smell.

Caffeine "drives away" mollusks. And fluffy creatures try to avoid such an area.

As a result, plants acquire protection from pests. The chances of preserving the harvest become very high.

Author: Kurchev Anton Deputy Editor-in-Chief