Gardener reveals 2 places you must check as they’re huge ‘slug hiding spots’ & £2 solution to keep them away for good

THEY'RE 1 of the astir annoying plot pests - peculiarly astatine this clip of year.

And arsenic good arsenic checking your lawns, determination are 2 little-known places slugs emotion hiding distant successful that you should adhd to your regular pest checklist.

According to gardener Jane, slugs tin often beryllium recovered underneath works pots and successful and astir piles of decaying leaves.

There are assorted ways you tin woody with slugs, including chemic pellets, but they are wide discouraged due to the fact that of the effect they tin person connected pets and section wildlife.

And Jane prefers a earthy method for keeping slugs away, which she accidentally discovered.

"I planted retired my rows of cautiously nurtured seedlings - cornflowers, marigolds, poppies, cosmos, nigella, snapdragons," she explained.

"Within 2 days the slugs had eaten everything but the snapdragons.

"Slugs don't similar snapdragons!"

The beauteous flowers are an effectual mode to support slugs distant due to the fact that they incorporate chemicals that are toxic to the pests.

Snapdragons besides person little moisture than immoderate different plants, meaning that slugs volition deliberation the plot doesn't person immoderate bully sources, and volition leave.

To marque the astir retired of the snapdragon deterrent, works them adjacent susceptible plants usually targeted by slugs, specified arsenic lettuces and cabbages.

And don't hide to enactment them on plot paths and fences too.

They won't outgo you overmuch either, arsenic you tin get snapdragon seeds for conscionable £2 a pack.

Jane, the laminitis of Snapdragon Life, besides opened up astir different slug deterrents, specified arsenic the well-known brew one, and cereal - which becomes much charismatic to slugs erstwhile it starts to ferment arsenic it's near retired to the elements.

"The lone happening amended than brew successful the caput of a slug is cereal," Jane said.

"They can't defy it!

"Rather than utilizing piles of bran which tin get messy, I usage inexpensive own-brand Weetabix-type cereal and again spot it betwixt the slugs and the crops."

Put the cereal into a ample instrumentality and past you tin conscionable cheque it distant erstwhile it's got slugs successful it.

"Simply permission the Weetabix for 3 days and past spell retired astatine nighttime and cod up each the Weetabix that should by present beryllium covered with feasting slugs," she added.