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My compost heap is full of slugs and snails and I feel I am spreading these and eggs across the garden when I use the compost.    Any comments as I am so reluctant to use the compost on my veg. garden

ususl 40. I will not use any pellets as I have a garden full of baby birds. I pick them up most nights. Spinach and leeks are doing well but they have had the squashs and pumpkins. I have lots of snails and slugs but instead of inhumanely getting rid

Are all slugs and snails found in the garden destructive? I seem to recall reading somewhere there are slugs that prey on other slugs and snails and would hate to think I am killing the good ones as well The main slugs that I have a problem with ar

Hi can anybody tell how to stop slugs and snails eating my clematis every year it is the same.I've tried pellets around the bottom, copper tape around the pot and keeping foliage from other plants away so that the slugs and snails can't reach across

I keep finding snails half buried in the garden. At first I ignored them thinking that they were empty shells left by the birds, until I lifted one the other day and found a nice fat snail attached to a big mass of white eggs! It was obviously

What is a cheap way of getting rid of Slugs and Snail. (l do find many Snails have been eaten) l have tried most things. Encouraging birds, beetles, frogs and hedgehogs  Beer traps work too, but it's a terrible waste of beer! With the lung worm

I am so impressed with this concoction that I feel I have a duty to broadcast it to everyone. I have been plagued for years with slugs and snails eating my plants, as soon as they poke their heads out of the soil, they are attacked.  I have tried

am sad to see the back of summer (what summer?!!). But there is something else I am pleased about, in a perverse, time-saving sort of a way.Snails - not the small ones or the medium sized ones, just the large vegetable and ornamental plant

Im about to begin an experiment using human hair as a deterrent for slugs and snails, i have heard that this works really well as hair has tiny barbs on it and they dont like it, i wonder has anyone tried this??it will hopefully help against

Is there ANYTHING slugs and snails won't eat? Weeds. You have to put yourself in the mindset of a slug-there is a free meal on offer-you can have grass and weeds- chips if you like-or for just a bit more effort dine at the Ritz on our treasured