Tip to keep the slug from your hostas.................................
dizzylizzy
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A guy from the Hosta society passed on a good tip to ward off the slugs and snails from your hostas -hair.
Hair has barbs on the strands and the slugs do not like to cross it.
I keep trimming a quarter inch off my fringe and sprinkling it around the plants, and if you know a hairdresser- even better. So far so good, and it is hardly noticeable. Remember to ensure it is quater inch to increase the shaprness of the hair!
Regards Liz
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Thanks Liz! I'm going to the hairdressers next week, I'll take a paper bag and bring home my trimmings! Luckily my hairdresser is training as a horticulturalist so hopefully she won't find it too weird
Great tip Liz,will have a word with mine.
After 72 years and 43 years in Medical practice I do not have much hair left! Will have to continue with slug pellets.
Would be interested in seeing if hair works. I put my Hosts in galvinised-zinc troughs and that works a treat as well. I would liek to put them in the ground and naturalise them but the slugs are too ferocious round these parts.