Keep slugs off your plants with simple method using 79p beauty staple [Video]

Amy, a gardening expert also known as ‘The Lockdown Gardener’ online, took to social media to unveil her gardening secret to deter slugs from her garden.

The gardening guru posted her clip on TikTok along with the caption: “My five defence system for protecting plants from slugs.”

She explained: “Put in a pot, raise up on a metal stand, slather Vaseline on the stand and rim on the pot, copper scouring pads around the base of the plant and lastly some garlic spray!

“Five defences! I hope there’s none living in the soil already as I will have just trapped them forever.”

In the brief video, Amy detailed her method for safeguarding her Hostas from voracious slugs.

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After placing her plant in a pot elevated on a metal stand, the gardening enthusiast from the UK generously applied Vaseline, readily available for just 79p at Waitrose, along …