WHAT a year it's been for slugs. Even the RHS has admitted it's a bumper season - with entmologist Hayley Jones stating: "A cooler than usual June has left little room for gardens to dry out, providing favourable conditions for these much-maligned molluscs." And what's worse, is that so many of the old classic remedies like beer traps , copper rings and slug pellets don't seem to be making much of a difference.
Step forward Garden Expert Michael Griffiths - AKA The Mediterannean Gardener - who has a top tip to stop slugs in their tracks. Mix salt with every day vaseline - and then rub it around the edges of your pots, or hard borders. Simple - yet genius.
Michael, 39, from Bristol, told me: "The usual go-tos for slugs are wool sheets, nematodes, or copper. "But copper needs buffing to keep the shine on if its to remain effective, and who has time for that? "And the rest just didn't seem to be working for me this year. "I saw this method online and thought I'd give it a go.
And it does seem to be working. "Rather than kill them - and I can tell it's not doing that as the area isn't littered with slug corpses - it just seems to turn them around. "And you don't use enough salt for it to damage the soil.
"It's definitely worth a shot." Vaseline is on sale at Tescos for £1.50 at the moment, and you can get Asda Table Salt for just 65p.
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