By Richard Wright
Friday, March 5, 2010
Hostas.
GARDENINGCHEERS to Mrs A. Shaw, from Northwood, for this tip.
Named for their shape and not their growing speed, hosta 'bullets’ should be emerging and now is just the time to deter slugs.
The bullets are tender and, as the slugs will be struggling for food at the minute, they home-in on hostas.
A ring of copper stripped out of electrical insulation will provide a barrier against the slugs or pet and hedgehog-friendly slug pellets can be used.
However, they dissolve much more quickly in the rain than the less environmentally-friendly kind.
Hostas, with their range of brilliant foliage, really do light up areas where other plants struggle.
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