Slow and clumsy, slugs can destroy a crop with surprising agility if left unchecked in a garden bed.
When you don’t want to poison the vegetation and soil with chemical products, you can ask Mother Nature for advice, and there is a lot to learn from her.
We will tell you which weeds, flowers and herbs useful in the household will help teach a lesson to gastropod pests.
Slugs will be scared away
1. Not that they are outright weeds, but slugs do not like herbs such as comfrey, borage, nettle, thistle, eryngium, that is, anything that pricks.
2. Among berries, raspberries, blackberries and gooseberries can also be included here.
3. Among garden crops, thickets of cucumbers, squash and pumpkin, whose vines are covered with numerous prickly hairs, will become amicable protection for the plantings. But before these thorns grow, the vegetable seedlings themselves can become a victim of a slug attack.
4. It has also been noted that the pest does not appear in thickets of yarrow and bugbane - they say that the reason is in the essential oils.
5. Soft leaves of cineraria, certain types of sage, plectranthus and other “fluffy” herbs repel gastropods.
6. Of the perennials, it is worth planting bergenia, sedum, periwinkle, daylily and ivy, primrose and other plants.
7. Stress and other negative emotions can be caused in slugs by the smell of tansy, wormwood, and even black currant - namely the greenery itself. This also includes mint and rosemary, fennel and garlic, parsley and other aromatic herbs widely used in cooking.
8. In the shade, where gastropods most often like to live, gardeners recommend planting heuchera, astrantia and astilbe.
