Planting for pollinators

This update captures the time when we planted marigolds to keep slugs and snails away from our crops. (Spoiler alert: it worked, the marigolds are gone!)

We recently cleared a new part of the garden to grow vegetables on. We wanted it to have a pretty border so we bought a tray of marigold from a local flowershop. Marigolds are supposed to be good for pollinators.

The kids dug small holes in the border and planted the flowers there. They looked pretty for a few weeks but slowly but surely got eaten by the pesky slugs and snails. 

We’ve replaced them with different flowers that are also pollinator friendly, are very pretty to look at and the slugs don’t seem to like them. As nothing else edible can be found in the garden (nothing ripened here up north during this summer), the slugs are probably looking for food elsewhere for a while..