do slugs like lupins and ice plants?

Planted a bought lupin in the garden yesterday and a sedum. does anyone know if slugs like these plants or do they leave them alone. As they are not very big I dont want them eaten before they have a chance?

 

if not big, try covering with a cut off lemonade bottle

 

I actually did do that but my husband started complaining saying that the garden was beginning to llok like steptoes back yard as I had also hung some bits of bacon rind up for the birdies!

 

LG, why don't you suggest that your husband buys you some of those lovely Victorian lanterns instead, at about �£150 each?

Then he may not mind the pastic bottles!

 

I might just!!!

 

I have never had any of my sedums chewed - nor as I recall my lupins (except when they first show in the spring - soon fine)

 

lupins have been really prone to slug attack in my garden, so much so that I stopped growing them for a while :( But I don;t think I've ever seen sedums munched by them, in any garden. :D

 

A few years ago, I had American Lupin Aphids - huge things that only eats Lupins. They absolutely destroyed mine. I haven't head of them recently. Are they still a problem?

 

I had an absolute blanket of them on my lupins last year! It was a shock as I didn't know about them and all I saw was this seething mass of purply things all over my precious blooms! I sprayed them and got rid but the flowering stems looked like a post-apocolyptic vegetation!

 

My lupins are doing hteir level best but it seems as soon as they emerge they get eaten, I tried vaseline-covered placcy bottles last year but they wilted! :-(
I dont do spraying or pesticides so I hope the lupins will win in the end!

 

Yep I think slugs like lupins, you could try a ring of sharp grit around the plants, but really just a slight scattering of slug pellets makes all the difference.
Why did the plastic bottles wilt? :D

 

Obviously shocked by the size of the slugs!!

 

Out of tonic :confused: :D

 

OMG! What a perfect answer! :D