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Oh..... and I also use all the other things.... I alternate cos they seem to get used to them.... and there are so many just now I am totally overwhelmed by them... I am hoping that once they have been culled a bit now, they will be more manageable later..... I keep all my eggshells, as well, lolol and my tumble dryer lint..... and have been known to dig out the inside of the vacuum cleaner bag, too..... but they are using the dead ones as a sort of bridge to get to the plants...... these are the SAS of slugs and snails, they really are!

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Daff xxx

the only other thing I can suggest is to put up a mini-fence around your plants, of corrugated plastic or something like it, and smear it in vaseline, so it's like a greasy pole to the slugs.

Lol.... right, so mini fences and fooling the b*****s it is then, lolol.... oh, and a snail circus as well..... seems enough there to keep me amused for a while!! lolol

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Daff xxxx

ps... R has counted the carcases in just one area.... about a square metre... and there are over 100 dead slugs and snails in just that one section... they must have had eggs or something under the surface, and all just hatched out or whatever they do.... yuk!! Gross!!

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Daff xxxx

"EGG SHELLS" lol yea I know, I use egg shells, maybe cause I eats lots of eggs for brekkie and the very odd fry up, throw them around the garden, break them up periodically, the grandchildren fink am mad, lol but the slugs/snails ar'nt appy Happy Gardening

I have just read up on nematodes.... so nematodes it is then........ meanwhile.... eggshells, lolol David, beer, lint from the tumble dryer, and a bag of grit from the garden centre tomorrow........ until I get my nematodes.

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Daff xxxxx

Now you mention it, my new bag of birdseed which was put up on the hedge only yesterday, has about 20 snails on it now. Still , that'll be fair game for the songthrush round here.