Sweet peas half eaten

[chasingmytail]

I had organic plug plants (not doing that again). The plants are short in height and half eaten by the slugs so not looking very good at all. Whats the best way forward with what is left?

[Martin H]

If you can keep the slugs off the plants will quite likely recover. Personally I keep them well weeded and use blue pellets, but feel free to try more organic approaches. Slugs and snails love sweet peas so without vigilance they are doomed.

[chasingmytail]

no more doom please!

[muddled]

You can cut the top and bottom off of fizzy pop bottles, place the remaining 'tubes' over each plant (or over 2 plants if close together) and push the bottle down into the soil a little way. Then smear the top few inches of the bottle outside with vaseline (or copperslip if you know a motorcyclist).

The slimies can't slither upwards across the vaseline and this will hopefully give your sweetpeas time to recover and then get strong enough to withstand slug attacks.

It is normal practice to pinch out sweetpeas at the second leaf node if you want to make them bushier with more flowers...hopefully, the slugs will simply have done that job for you and the plants will bounce back.

[bramble]

My Sweetpeas this evening.

I have gravel around the roots of my plants and that seems to keep the slugs away.