Comments on: New Video: How to protect your Hostas from slugs and snails http://www.exoticgarden.com/blog/the-garden/how-to-protect-hostas-from-slugs-and-snail/ A subtropical garden in a temperate climate that defies being in a city. Mon, 02 Jan 2012 19:49:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Oguz Daver http://www.exoticgarden.com/blog/the-garden/how-to-protect-hostas-from-slugs-and-snail/comment-page-1/#comment-228 Oguz Daver Thu, 29 Apr 2010 04:47:42 +0000 http://www.exoticgarden.com/blog/?p=527#comment-228 Dear Will, I'm sorry about my bizarre questions. I'm a medical doctor; in medicine there are two type of Vaseline:jelly and liquide. Anyway we are talking about the same substance. Thank you for the answers... Dear Will,
I’m sorry about my bizarre questions. I’m a medical doctor; in medicine there are two type of Vaseline:jelly and liquide. Anyway we are talking about the same substance. Thank you for the answers…

]]> By: Will http://www.exoticgarden.com/blog/the-garden/how-to-protect-hostas-from-slugs-and-snail/comment-page-1/#comment-227 Will Wed, 28 Apr 2010 17:09:34 +0000 http://www.exoticgarden.com/blog/?p=527#comment-227 James – I’ve never tried copper strips. Victoria – Vaseline, it’s good for everything as well as around the base of your flowerpots. About 2ins will make slugs and snail’s slither and slide until they give up! Unfortunately it doesn’t catch the flying ones though! As for copper strips – I have never tried those and of course as pot sides are at an angle, they will never go round in a straight line – this is never mentioned on the packet, so being artistic is the only answer! There is a biological control using nematodes though I don’t know how successful they are at stopping them munching their way through you prized possessions... Oguz - In the UK Vaseline (a trademarked brand of petroleum jelly) is a gooey substance in a jar which doesn’t dissolve in water or at least slowly, so works well on a pots and containers. You still have to make sure that your pots do not touch any other plants or a wall as the slugs will still be able to get to your wonderful plants that way. James – I’ve never tried copper strips.

Victoria – Vaseline, it’s good for everything as well as around the base of your flowerpots. About 2ins will make slugs and snail’s slither and slide until they give up! Unfortunately it doesn’t catch the flying ones though! As for copper strips – I have never tried those and of course as pot sides are at an angle, they will never go round in a straight line – this is never mentioned on the packet, so being artistic is the only answer!

There is a biological control using nematodes though I don’t know how successful they are at stopping them munching their way through you prized possessions…

Oguz – In the UK Vaseline (a trademarked brand of petroleum jelly) is a gooey substance in a jar which doesn’t dissolve in water or at least slowly, so works well on a pots and containers. You still have to make sure that your pots do not touch any other plants or a wall as the slugs will still be able to get to your wonderful plants that way.

]]> By: Oguz Daver http://www.exoticgarden.com/blog/the-garden/how-to-protect-hostas-from-slugs-and-snail/comment-page-1/#comment-226 Oguz Daver Wed, 28 Apr 2010 07:33:37 +0000 http://www.exoticgarden.com/blog/?p=527#comment-226 Do you put liquid Vaseline or creme? How do you protect the Vaseline from the rain? Silly questions I know, but I will try this tip, brilliant idea. It's much better than the bier who attracs the snails even from my neigbour, or my hedghog who only eats the tender, young snails. Do you put liquid Vaseline or creme? How do you protect the Vaseline from the rain? Silly questions I know, but I will try this tip, brilliant idea. It’s much better than the bier who attracs the snails even from my neigbour, or my hedghog who only eats the tender, young snails.

]]> By: Victoria http://www.exoticgarden.com/blog/the-garden/how-to-protect-hostas-from-slugs-and-snail/comment-page-1/#comment-224 Victoria Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:46:15 +0000 http://www.exoticgarden.com/blog/?p=527#comment-224 Brilliant! I'd never heard that tip about Vaseline before - I shall try it. I use copper tape, which works quite well, but I can never get it to go round the pot in a straight line. Looking round the garden at a lot of pots with wonky copper lines round them slightly irritates me, so I shall have to invest in yet more copper tape and put MORE wonky lines round them and pretend I'm being artistic. Brilliant! I’d never heard that tip about Vaseline before – I shall try it. I use copper tape, which works quite well, but I can never get it to go round the pot in a straight line. Looking round the garden at a lot of pots with wonky copper lines round them slightly irritates me, so I shall have to invest in yet more copper tape and put MORE wonky lines round them and pretend I’m being artistic.

]]> By: James Chapman http://www.exoticgarden.com/blog/the-garden/how-to-protect-hostas-from-slugs-and-snail/comment-page-1/#comment-223 James Chapman Tue, 27 Apr 2010 06:24:08 +0000 http://www.exoticgarden.com/blog/?p=527#comment-223 Hi Will, have you had any success with copper rings around hostas to prevent slugs? Hi Will, have you had any success with copper rings around hostas to prevent slugs?

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