You know, I am beginning to suspect this whole slug pellet idea. I put my sunflowers in on May 7th and watered in morning and/or evening. It's been dry and all was well. I bought a kilo of slug pellets yesterday for E4.99 and sprinkled a few around the bases of the plants. I did rain a bit overnight. Today, during the day, while it was sunny, two slugs nearby, and snot trails too. Later on, an empty snail shell. Do the flaming pellets ATTRACT the buggers in order to kill them or is it too much of a coincidence?
It happened a couple of years ago, I sprinkled pellets liberallly around one spot in particular...the next morning, it seemed that every snail in the parish/neighbourhood had been called in over night. It was digusting. Couldn't go in that part of the garden for days!!!Eeewww...
Ciaran