How many of you throw out used coffee grounds? We've heard of the tip using used coffee grounds around delicate plants prone to being nibbled by the ever present slugs - seems logical because they won't like the gritty sensation. If you've no coffee grounds then save your egg shells, dry them off in a cooling oven then crush and place these around such plants as delphiniums that seem to be a tasty morsel high on the slugs' menu. This method has been tried out and it worked! Place the egg shells thickly in a circle around where the shoots will appear - don't leave it too late!
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| deter it before it gets a taste for the shoots! |
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| Don't let it get this far |
Another tip is about those last dregs of tea in the pot that usually end up down the sink. Apparently save these extra strong dregs in a jug then use to douse foliage that looks as though it may be getting greenfly etc. We hope we've remember this tip correctly - it's either a pest repellent or a plant food. Try both.
Washing up liquid diluted in a spray is a good greenfly treatment - and won't do harm to birds and bees.
If anyone knows if unwanted CDs , plastic bottles half filled with water laid on the soil and beer traps work let us know and we'll pass on the good news!
Don't forget to install your waspinator soon as wasps are on the look out for new dwellings!
Enjoy your garden.
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| What you want to end up with! |
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