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Listening to Jeremy Vine last week talking about slug problems and a lady caller said she uses a scattering of porridge oats (uncooked) around the plants. The slugs eat the oats and then die. As it wasn't April 1st there might be some truth to it. Has anyone ever heard of this before. I don't want to go to the allotment and look a complete ass if it isn't any good.
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There's been a lot of talk on here about using bran for slugs, so I guess the same principle would apply. Slugs eats bran/oats, it swells inside them and they go pop! Worth a try
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I've tried both - as soon as it rains they're both useless
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As a child we had rabbits and guinea pigs in a run outside, their bowl of dry food, which contained flaked oats and other grains, was always covered with slugs at night time.
No idea if the stuff killed them, but they certainly were attracted to it.Comment
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It might have just given them really low cholesterol levels!Originally posted by lukens View PostComment
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Its a well known fact that Slugs like the F-Plan diet - Lots of fibre, fruit, every f-ing veg you try to grow...........Comment
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Years back I used to use a mixture of bran and meter fuel (solid meth thingy) Don't know if it was the bran or meter fuel that killed the slugs but something worked!Gardening requires a lot of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. Lou Erickson, critic and poetComment
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According to the July issue of the RHS Garden magazine, coffee can be used to kill slugs as caffeine is toxic to slugs and snails. This is why coffee grounds are often mentioned as a way to protect plants - the texture helps too. Research in the USA found that spraying soil with a 1-2 percent caffeine solution killed slugs and snails within two days. The article also points out that, technically, this is illegal (using anything as a pesticide that has not been approved is illegal).Comment
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