Shoutout to my neighbor for convincing me to try cardboard under my mulch

I thought it was just a weird garden hack, but after a wet spring in Seattle, my raised beds had zero weeds for the first time. Anyone have other simple tricks that actually work?

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reeseperez24d ago

Isn't it funny how the best advice often sounds a little nuts at first? I've found that a lot of the simplest fixes (like that cardboard trick) get ignored because they seem too easy to actually work.

susan_bell22d ago

Yeah, the eggshell thing @jesse_williams62 mentioned is a good example, but it's not really about the shells being sharp. Slugs just hate crawling over the dry, dusty powder. The cardboard trick works on a similar idea, creating a barrier they don't want to cross. People hear these simple ideas and assume they're just old wives' tales without any real logic behind them. But a lot of times there's a basic, physical reason why the easy fix actually works.

jesse_williams6224d ago

Oh man, my buddy swore by putting a ring of crushed eggshells around his plants to stop slugs. I told him it sounded like a total waste of time. He showed me his hostas a month later, not a single slug hole, while mine looked like lace. Sometimes the weird stuff just works.