It's time to add the snail/slug bait?

old wives tales say that from Valentine's day, one should start using snail / slug pellets?

 

Well I have slugs chomping my heucheras so I will be putting pellets out. I use the organic, safe for animals kind.

 

tried those .... only stuff that seems to work for me are the blue pellets

also read that birds will not eat snails/slugs that are slimey .... this is what happens when they eat the blue pellets .... not sure how true that is though?

 

beer traps all the way

 

Bet you're popular with the Mrs, you old romantic you.:D

 

I just give the chucks the run of the garden they pinch a few shoots but hopefully with their digging and pecking,30 hens and 2 cockerels seem to have their fair share of juicy critters.:yess:

 

Do you know what, in one of the gardners magazines i was readin in the supermarket one day they had they had a snail kit you could send for i think it was £20-30 contained verything even the food until they matured, they were beeing sold as a delicacy i thought they must think people are i want to eradicate them from my garden not breed them, just the sight of them makes me break into a cold sweat and want to:runhills: