porridge and slugs/snails

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    I read somewhere that by putting porridge around the plant the slugs/snails will eat so much of it that they will bloat and die. They should also find it difficult to climb over it-have you ever tried?
     
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    I think it's supposed to be bran. I've tried porridge oats and they ignored it.
     
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    :wink: You are right Miraflores.. :hehe: It is not that they eat it..!!!! I have tried then fairly successfully, but it was remembering to replenish asfter rai & in long periods of rain found them not so good, but in damp weather brilliant..!!!!!!!!!!! :gnthb:
     
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