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  • Ticked
    Ticked Posts: 518 Forumite
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    Thank you all for your suggestions. Butterflymum, there were some good methods on the site you suggested. The copper tape doesn't work. Chickens and hedgehogs I would love, can't have chickens as OH is allergic, hedgehogs and frogs deserted when houses were built on the previously wild ground behind us. Scissors after dark and a slug trap seem to have reduced the numbers, however, the slugs will win in the end!
  • Mojisola
    Mojisola Posts: 35,571 Forumite
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    Nematodes.
  • Ticked
    Ticked Posts: 518 Forumite
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    Considered nematodes but didn't go for them, quite expensive, have to be renewed every 6 weeks, and it seemed a bit like maximatosis, i.e., introduced by man with horrible consequences. Thanks anyway, Mojisola!
  • suki1964
    suki1964 Posts: 14,313 Forumite
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    Don't know how big your garden is, but you can encourage frogs back by digging a shallow widelife pond. You can plant it up beautifully and make a feature of it

    One of the best things I found to protect plant is shells. Years ago I bought some decorative crushed sea shell to put in vases, then I had the idea of putting them around my hostas and voila - slug free

    I was thinking oyster shell would be hard and sharp enough. You can buy it in an animal feed store for like a £1 a kilo
  • Ticked
    Ticked Posts: 518 Forumite
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    Suki1964, garden not big and it slopes so no pond. Small grandchildren, they would be in it as well! Crushed shells I'll try, also some sharp sand. It's all good fun!
  • saverbuyer
    saverbuyer Posts: 2,556 Forumite
    Nematodes are the way to go. They aren't that expensive (unless the garden is massive) and really do the job. £20 every 6 weeks is worth it for me.
  • tommie
    tommie Posts: 380 Forumite
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    Had enough of the nightly slug fest as they chomped their way through my newly laid plants. Visit to B&M yesterday, tub blue pellets @ £2.95,

    job done
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