slug pellets

Ive noticed a lot of people saying they use slug pellets,Please,please stop useing them!! garden birds eat the slugs after theyve eaten the pellets thay also feed them to there babys!!!!!so please stop useing them

 

i never thought of that i feel awful now xx i will..i promise rachel x

 

thank u so muchjust knowing its stopped one person makes me so happyxxxx

 

youve knocked me sick rachel !i really didnt realise i thought i was just protecting my marigolds,gutted xx

 

Im sorry but atleast u know nowxxxx

 

Rachel....sorry I'm butting in here. Just noticed where you are. My favourite place in the whole of Scotland.

 

Aww thank u very much,i luv it here to! well apart from the midges their a killer

 

bamboothruths on that side aswel i think ...il have to have a drive up one day it all looks so flush at ruths xx

 

Shes my sister!

 

i meant ruth is my sister that why we both live in ullapool

 

i tried looking on details to check but not getting info or pics?? ruths on my friends so i know the info was there b4??prob a glitch il check again tomo x ..ps ur sis is a lovely woman x

 

aww just caught up with all this thankyou joolz and same to you ,im guessing you`ve been to ullapool sheal you must pop in next time, to slug pellets canna stick them either mice or anything could eat them and there unsightly

 

I seem to have more than my fair share of snails. I'm on chalky soil and apparently this always makes things worse as they like the lime for their shells. Mostly I have learned to grow things which the snails won't eat - there is a 'sticky' somewhere on the forum which lists lots of things the slugs and snails will leave alone - but I grow a few things every year which I know will be reduced to stumps overnight unless I do something. I won't use pellets so I've tried just about every wildlife safe alternative; many don't work - at least, not against tough, street-fighting Medway gangster snails which have been known to climb the walls of my house and shelter under the eaves.

This stuff, however, does. It doesn't harm the snails; it just prevents them from wandering over the surface. The only drawback is that it is quite expensive. But I'm usually just sprinkling a little around the odd potted plant, so one box goes a long way.

The Organic Gardening Catalogue

 

If you want to protect things in pots then a band of copper tape around the top of the pot works really well; it did for me anyway, kept the little blighters off my hostas, not a single hole :thumb:

 

aye coppers brilliant