Slug Repellent

is there anything i can use around my plants that wont harm the buns,i know you can get slug killer that is friendly to animals and kiddies but i still really dont want to use that,so what do you use?

Salt or sand, or both seem to do the trick. slugs dont like gritty surfaces and salt for obvious reasons

If you want to put them off rather than kill them, apparently they don't like copper

You can get wool pellets and ceramic stuff both of which are supposed to work. Or I think you can buy nematodes to water on.

Gravel around plants works, as does broken up cement pieces. Apparently broken egg shells and coffee also works but I've never tried those!

With my ex business I had to overcome my phobia of slugs and snails a bit. I still hate them though!

I pick the ones in the back garden up and throw them over the fence in to the field at the back but we leave the slugs and snails in the front for Henrietta hedgehog and of course the birds eat them as well

thanks ladies,will try some of those,already been sprinklin salt round there fav' plants

thumper-ive already tried copper but didnt work

Oh well!! I'll know not to recommend copper to anyone else then

Thumper2001 wrote:If you want to put them off rather than kill them, apparently they don't like copper

Just don't be surprised if you come home to find your garden full of Pikeys pinching the copper

Sink a can of beer into the soil with the top removed and pour some beer in it. The slugs like beer and crawl in, get p****d and drown

Get your OH to empty them though as swollen drowned slugs are absolutely disgusting. Not much turns my stomach, but drowned slugs in beer and tipping waste food down the loo (it's the plopping sound and the splash back) really make me want to dry retch

Another satisfying thing to do is to water the garden in the early evening and wait. The slugs and snails will come out, lob the snails away and cut the slugs in half with a pair of scissors. The birds will eat the chopped slugs for you and you don't have to worry about harming the birds with pellets or salty slugs.

Father Jack wrote:

Thumper2001 wrote:If you want to put them off rather than kill them, apparently they don't like copper

Just don't be surprised if you come home to find your garden full of Pikeys pinching the copper

Vince the bunny wrote:Sink a can of beer into the soil with the top removed and pour some beer in it. The slugs like beer and crawl in, get p****d and drown

Get your OH to empty them though as swollen drowned slugs are absolutely disgusting. Not much turns my stomach, but drowned slugs in beer and tipping waste food down the loo (it's the plopping sound and the splash back) really make me want to dry retch

Another satisfying thing to do is to water the garden in the early evening and wait. The slugs and snails will come out, lob the snails away and cut the slugs in half with a pair of scissors. The birds will eat the chopped slugs for you and you don't have to worry about harming the birds with pellets or salty slugs.

we need a smiley been sick smiley

ive been and bought some coffee,so will do that later,also ordered some of them wood pellets,so we will see