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Yes, putting salt around plants can keep slugs away even though there is possible collateral damage or death to the vegetation in question. Salt dehydrates animals and plants so that plants in particular do not access necessary soluble nutrients. Repulsion of slugs may be achieved through sprinkling coffee grounds, a control that will not harm the plant, its neighbors or the soil in which they all grow.
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∙ 6y ago
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∙ 10y agoYes, putting salt around plants can keep slugs away, but at the possible cost of damaging or killing the plant.
Specifically, salt can dehydrate animals and plants. They can keep plants from taking in necessary nutrients, which must be in soluble form. Repulsion of slugs may be achieved through sprinkling coffee grounds, which will not harm the plant or the soil in which it grows.
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∙ 14y agoNot likely. Unless the plant has a tolerance for salt because it is adapted to the salt marshes, salt will kill the plants.
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What do slugs eta?
plants
What are the orange slugs with feet that keep eating my plants?
Dusky, red and Spanish slugs are orange slugs that eat plants. Taxonomists categorize the three molluscs respectively into the gastropod genus Arion subfuscus, A. rufus and A. vulgaris. Slugs may be considered as beneficial in consuming carrion, decaying and living fungi and plants, other slugs, and snails and as pests in eating edible, ornamental and wildflowering plants.
Will salt kill a plant?
plants are not slugs
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put a DISH of beer in among the plants. slugs will go to the dish but not your plant.
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ivy
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What does eat slugs?
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I really need to know the answer to this for my daughters homework, does anyone know who to stop FLIES and SLUGS?
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