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to pesticides where possible, so I don't use slug pellets. This season I've discovered the versatility of copper in my battle with Britain's No.1 garden pest. It's been found that copper rings and tape provide an effective barrier across which slugs and snails

across a slug, they enter its body, infecting it with bacteria and kill it. This dramatically reduces the slug population and many areas of my plot are now slug free, which makes me very happy.However, I didn't apply the nematodes to every part of my

anything from 6-12 weeks for the spawn to develop into a tadpole and then into a frog. Interestingly, when we returned to check that the spawn had settled in, other frogs had laid their eggs near by. This is a very good sign as it means that the transposed

) have a voracious appetite for aphids.The other leaf-munching pests are slugs. I'm now on night patrol. Night is the easiest and best time to go out with rubber gloves and torch, picking off as many as I can find. They are then disposed of. Not, I hasten

for the Spartans but they gave it a pretty good shot).Slug and snail control has been covered here a few times so you should have lots of available weaponry in the battle. Should you decide (as you should) that hostas are worth the trouble then it's easier

Slugs may be diverted from your container-grown plants by fixing copper tape to your pots. The tape is thin, easy to cut and simple to apply. The copper will gradually turn green over time.A roll of copper adhesive tapeCraft pinking shearsall year

Every year the RHS publishes a list of popular pests: popular in that they are the ones about whom the RHS entomologists have had the most enquiries. Top of the charts this year are slugs and snails (everybody's bête noir) followed by the harlequin

My recent rant about this year's plague of slugs obviously touched a raw nerve with British allotmenteers. I'm clearly not alone in feeling ground down by the enormity of the problem.Now, as if to confirm that nature is gaining the upper hand on my

-cum-garden, about everything from slug control to spacing sweetcorn plants. It's lovely for me to be outside, chatting about my favourite vegetable varieties, and how to make 'Grown your Own' efforts succeed.Then it's over to the 'Celebrity Theatre' stage, where

A chemical treatment used to kill slugs and snails.