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Sophie King

Mary Berry’s secret recipe for keeping slugs and snails at bay is ‘dead easy’ – and really effective

Dame Mary Berry at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2024.

Mary Berry’s new gardening book is an absolute treasure trove of green-fingered anecdotes and wisdom, and among the pages, I found a few invaluable tips for keeping slugs at bay.

As it turns out, Mary has a secret recipe: a garlic spray that repels slugs and snails. I found it in My Gardening Life, which you can buy from Amazon. It’s a joy to read, featuring beautiful imagery of Mary’s own garden and insights into her gardening learnings, mistakes, and favourite plants over the years. After spotting slug trails on my patio over the last week, I’m finding Mary’s slug and snail deterrent tips especially useful at the moment.

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