Homeowner Forum / Lawn and Garden / July 2008

Hi there, I am new to this site and quite an inexperienced gardener s
please bear with me. I hope I have posted this in the right place!

I have a small garden and this year is the first year I have planted i
out with anything at all. I love bedding plants and at my old house ha
good success with busy lizzies and petunias. I set about planting m
beds with busy lizzies and marigold only to find that we have a ver
large population of slugs! We also have a resident hedgehog who
understand is excellent for keeping slugs down but there are so many
don't think he can keep up! our next door garden is an overgrow
wildernesse and a slug heaven, I have seriously never seen so man
slugs! I can't use most types of slug killers for fear of them no
being safe for the hedgehog. We have tried beer traps which ar
wonderful but still I am struggling. I have already lost my marigold
completely and the busy lizzies were fighting back but are clearly no
really struggling.

I want to replant my beds with something else, what can I use tha
slugs won't eat and can now be planted in mid July? I have som
geraniums in a tub and they are doing handsomely and do not appear t
have any slug damage. So I hoping to maybe plant some of these out wit
something else but I need some advise.

Thank you for listening..

--
Mrs Badger