Spring, with its delicate shoots and budding roses, can be a busy time for gardeners.
Now’s the time to cover tentative seedlings, fertilise hungry soil, and keep slugs away from tender baby plants.
Luckily, Ellen Fletcher, an expert gardener from MyBuilder.com, said a bag of untreated (raw) sheep’s wool can help with all three tasks.
How can farmers’ wool help my garden?
“Spring is here, and millions of gardeners are getting ready to roll up their sleeves and get to planting for the summer season. An issue for many is slugs and snails, but wool has the ability to act as a barrier, which copper tape, egg shells, and coffee grains aren’t able to do,” Fletcher told us.
“The lanolin in the wool keeps them away, making it a simple and natural way to protect plants.”
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