Hostas and their enemies

Hostas are coming into leaf and are looking incredibly delicious to the army of slugs and snails that live in the garden. My main solution is to grow them in pots, and to spray the pots with WD40 about now, as the beasts are waking after the winter.

It has worked for 5 years. For hostas in the ground, or other vulnerable plants, spray a barrier to go around them - a piece of old hose for big plants, a plastic bottle section for baby delphiniums and lupins. Make sure there are no overhanging leaves, because the varmints will try every other way to get to their lunch.