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Obelixx:
More like 10€ for enough for one pot when I saw it in Belgium.  I stuck to the new slug pellets and hand picking.

Tee Gee:
Reminds me of a friend of mine who would lay a plank of wood on the top of the soil near to the plants that wanted protection. Then either at dusk or or early morning he would look under the plank of wood to see if there were any slugs. If there was he would stick his trusty skewer into them in a way that the next slug would slide up the skewer pushing the previous one further up the skewer On a good visit the skewer was pretty near full after his patrol. On you could say he ended up with skewer that was reminiscent of a kebab.

Paulh:
I should avoid reading this thread when I'm eating my lunch!

picman:
I had a small bag of the wool pellets ( slug gone) very expensive, but works, dont know how long for, I put some of it round my six celery  plants.so that's about a pound for each plant ...The damp dark slug shelter is cheaper.       

Obelixx:
That's expensive celery!!

Our last garden - central Belgium and lots of rain - was a slug paradise so I used several methods to trap slugs, including picking them off by torchlight.  OH favoured scissors.   Yuk!

This garden is drier so we have more of a snail proble.   Yesterday I went o pot on  alate germinated and developing courgette plant only to find 2 huge fat snails had crawled under the pot and were tipping it up.    They were fat on a baby dahlia that's been struggling.  Now despatched across the road into the hedgerow whence they'll have to take their chances against tractors and traffic and gravel to get back.

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