WITH spring finally here and the weather heating up, if you want to ensure your garden is guest-ready, you’ve come to the right place.
There’s nothing more annoying than spending days looking after your plants, only to find crawling all over them.
And if your plants have been chewed by the , don’t worry, we’ve got just the thing.
These can quickly become a gardener's nightmare, leaving ragged holes in leaves and causing significant damage to plants.
But luckily for you, one has claimed to have found a that solves this problem.
Sharing their wisdom on a r/GardeningUK thread, a user recommended using a cheap to for good, and beamed: “It's bye-bye slugs!”
According to this user, using – yes, you heard that correctly – will enable to wave goodbye to the nocturnal creatures that thrive in damp conditions.
The answer was in response to a fellow gardener's call for help on the online forum.
The enthusiast wrote: “I'm Looking for a pesticide-free deterrent…I'm not looking to kill as there's no point and the stuff that does harm beneficial .”
While many people suggested picking slugs up at dusk every evening as they begin to crawl on plants, one Reddit user pointed out that the melon method proves to be effortless.
They said: “Get a honeydew melon. Cut in half. Eat the melon while preserving the skin in two hemispheres.
“Then go and put the melon skin in your near the crops, facing downwards, so it forms a dome.”
The Reddit user claimed that the melon – and this trick also works with watermelon too – should then be lifted the next morning, as they continued: “You will see (nearly) every slug in your garden is in that melon because they would rather eat melon than your crops.
“You can then put the melon miles away, or at least as far as possible, and it's !”
If you want to give this handy trick a try but are being stared at by an empty fruit bowl, don’t worry you’ll find honeydew melon in all major .
And if you’re , you’ll be pleased to know that using a honeydew melon is an incredibly trick, as it will cost you just £1.89 from , and .
You can then put the melon miles away, or at least as far as possible, and it's bye-bye slugs!
Reddit user
You can also use watermelon, which you can pick up for only £2.28 in Asda, £2.30 in Sainsbury's and £2.99 in Aldi.
According to the Royal Horticultural Society, the netted field slug, brown soil slug and common garden snail are some of the species most likely to be found feeding on garden plants.
But it turns out that other kinds, like the , can be beneficial to your garden.
The RHS explained that these slugs don't pose a threat to , and are highly territorial against other slugs.
In fact, the RHS claimed they can “be a gardener's friend”.
