Snails

Slug pellets, without Metaldehyde, safe for other animals.

Do a snail hunt several times a day and throw them as far as possible over your fence into your neighbours veg patch and hope that they prefer it there !

It is so annoying! I have gone out and collected them up before now. Slug pellets work well though.

I Chuck them over the back fence the neighbours don’t use their garden. I think they find their way back again though ? ?

If you want to try a more natural method, after you have used slug pellets, collect the vacant snail shells, crush them, and sprinkle them around the plants that you want to protect!

When my son looked after the garden one summer when I was away, he had a snail hunt every night. He threw them over the wall into the road.

Hedgehog

Can I hire yours Whitewavemark2?

Ours went walkabout a few years ago and never came back

They are the bane of my gardening life I hate killing things but they just chomp their way through everything I ve tried copper tape and watched them crawl over it this year I put safe pellets down around all my plants and two pots are still shredded to bits it’s so disheartening They never touch weeds ?I do use eggs shells around the plants too but I can’t go through eggs fast enough

Slug pellets on soil or around plants. But I get dozens of slugs and snails slithering en masse, up my garden path and driveway on their way for a midnight feast. So I go out, mid evening, and trickle a line of salt at the bottom of the garden gate and along the path. It's like a pile up the next morning.

Thanks to all who’ve answered.
Will consider slug pellets I think and/or rounding them up snd taking them to the green near our house .
Off to do a snail hunt now.
Thanks again all xx

I slug hunt most nights - glass of wine in one hand, salt in the other. It’s never ending though.

I’ve tried these for the first time this year, they work really well and don’t harm other wildlife or my dog.

Mr R does snail hints and dumps them in the park. He swears they find their way back

Well we’ve got 30 snails less now all 30 safely deposited in the middle of the green, so we’ve all got an equal chance of the blighters sloping into our gardens.
Will go for some other deterrents when I get to the garden ctr.

Broken egg shells have really worked for me. I did a 'control' experiment with one hosta surrounded by slug pellets and the other with crunched-up egg shells, and the egg-shell one is doing better.
I saved them up during the winter and crushed them with a pestle and mortar (tip, wash them as you use them or else they stink!)

A bowl of beer. They get in and die happy!

Is there any truth in the suggestion I've heard that they don't approach plants surrounded by gravel or bark chippings?

I have some plants in pots in a catio which is on my side driveway. It is rough concrete covered partly with artificial turf, surrounded on 2 sides by brick walls, and 3 wood panel walls with no gaps under any of it. There is netting over the top and the side gate to stop cats getting out. I have a small removable rotary clothes dryer sitting in the middle not touching the sides of anything. I go out to bring in my washing after leaving it out overnight and there is a big fat blxxxy slug on top of my nice black top, complete with long slimy trail. How the heck did it get there? There is no chance of any plant surviving the little sods is there?

I’ve moved my potted Hosta up onto a wooden seat to stop them being eaten and this morning noticed eaten leaves on investigation I found snails in each pot ggrrrr! How do they even know they are even up there never climb the metal legs? Goodness knows how a slug made that journey * Bluebellwould*

But the snails got me back last night on my snail hunt I managed to step on a wet slab, slipped and twisted my ankle dammit ?

I've recently tried using Strulch and so far it seems to help. I use Nemaslug, but the snails aren't affected by this . I also use copper tape, so maybe a combination of strategies helps?

MissChateline

Do a snail hunt several times a day and throw them as far as possible over your fence into your neighbours veg patch and hope that they prefer it there !

I hope no one throws them into my veg patch! ?
None of our front gardens on the cup de sac seem to suffer with snails........discovered why the other night when I came home late from a volunteering event........at least six hedgehogs roaming the gardens and paths! It was a joy to see, just have to be mindful that we don't run over them.

Eat them, they are very nice stir fried in garlic butter.

I’ve found slugs and snails halfway up a rough cast wall!