question?

Hello , its been awhile seen i have posted on here , but i have a question .



Do slugs and snails like lavender?


The reason i ask is because i was thinking of planting lots of lavender around the base of my many clematis dotted around the garden .


I am sick and tired of those little snails climbing up the clematis and eating the stems, which then makes the whole stem from top to bottom die, and it always happens when there is lots of great big buds ready to burst into flower , and it is sooooo annoying when they have been growing so well , and those snails spoil it all




i was thinking that if they do not like lavender it may stop them coming near my clematis What do you think?

 

I dont think they do ,i don`t recall seeing any on mine,

Did you see Gardeners World last night, i thought that was a good idea to take the base out of a pot and feed the clematis through it ,so the upturned pot covers the roots, it then protects the new shoots, i was thinking you could drop slug pellets through aswell,as an added precaution , as the birds wouldn`t be able to get at them

 

Slugs never touch my lavenders, but I don't think they act as a deterent either - I've seen plenty of them slithering around near the plants but not eating them.

I use a combination of coffee grounds, pellets and crushed egg shells on a regular basis to ward off these slimy little pests.

 

the very small snails i have found hiding under the leaves of my established clematis , i thought at first when my established clematis started to droop on one stem only , that it was clematis wilt ,but after looking found that the snails were eating the soft stems , i do put the blue slug pellets down from time to time but i was hoping that there might be aplant that they do not like and it might stop them ,but maybe that is just wishful thinking

 

its those very small snails that seem to be in my garden, they are only small but they sure do a lot of damage . they are brown and cream in colour .

 

yes i did see that idea on gardeners world, when i put a new clematis in i will try that .
but my clematis have been in the ground about three or four years now, and are well established , and they seem to find a way to get on the clematis , because new growth is not always at the bottom it is all over the plant, and it is so dissapointing when it is full of really big buds ready to flower, and one by one they droop and die because of damage some where on the plant .


oh well it was just a hope that there will be some plant that they do not like to come near , and it may do the trick.(i wish)

 

But if you drop a large pot over in winter while its dormant , and put slug pellets round the slugs cannot climb up the plant to damage the buds,,but i have mine up one of those clematis poles if its against something you are stuck

 

i remember my father using (COURSE SALT),for slugs/snails. my fathers garden was always quite damp, with the way it was sloped, (LIKE A HIGH ROCKERY) the moisture would run to the bottom of the garden ,from the rockery.and he had lots of slugs/snails in the garden.i remember him sprinkling rough salt around plants,to stop the slugs/snails getting at the plants.it did work.
in my own garden i have done the same as thousands have done in the country(THE MODERN GARDEN).slabs/edging stones/etc etc. creating a damp atmosphere,UNDERFOOT,slug/snail territory.
so get rid of the little blighters,the answer is salt, it dehidrates there skins. music.