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Why don't slugs and snails eat weeds in my garden?

As they eat every other plant in it.

Consequently why doesn't somebody make an eco friendly weed killer that you spray onto weeds that makes it attractive to slugs and snails. A slug n snail pheromone so to speak. That way we could get them to do something positive with their lives that would benefit us rather than having to kill them all the time.

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  • Asked by aturnb
  • on 2010-05-21 12:53:57
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Last edited on: 2010-05-21 20:31:51

Categories: Plants.

Tags: plant, Slugs, Weeds.

 

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Jon-Richfield says:

 

Slugs do in fact eat weeds to some extent, but usually not much. If matters were otherwise, the weeds soon would stop being weeds; they would be slug. Weeds largely survive because they are poisonous and nasty to pests.

It is easier to spray an eco-friendly slug-repellant onto your plants, than to make weeds tasty and safe.Some of the poisons of weeds are in fact suitable. A particularly good one is caffeine. Slugs and snails hate it, and if they crawl over it they turn back and even die if they absorb more than a tiny bit.

Used coffee grounds (NOT (yuch!) decaf!) are an effective anti-snail  mulch.

Jon

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