Buy Your Slug Bait Now. Soon Illegal!

[Mr Tom Morrow]

I didn't know this. Just watching BBC Wales X Ray program.

No longer being sold from 30th June 2019 and illegal to use from 'Spring' 2020.

Best get my thinking cap on for an alternative.

[EssexSue]

Drown them in beer!

[01Car]

Nematodes are the way to go.

[Moorlandman]

Ferric phosphate pellets will still be available but whether they are as effective is up for debate!

The argument for the ban is that they kill birds and other wildlife like frogs

[mick]

That's a bit of a coincidence Tom as I've only just sprinkled some this afternoon as they were nibbling my Nicotiana. That's not a euphemism.

Is it because people are eating them thinking they are Smarties I wonder. Life is getting more and more challenging at my age. I can't even open a box of washing powder tabs now. Realign the twenty arrows whilst pushing down then turn anti-clockwise whilst breaking your nails on the four clips underneath.

Mick

[olgaandcoda]

Keep chickens, they clean the slugs out like nothing else!

[greekgranny]

Better get me to Poundland, they have the best pellets out!

[Mr Tom Morrow]

Originally Posted by olgaandcoda

Keep chickens, they clean the slugs out like nothing else!

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Ha ha. The day I have a chicken in my garden is the day I give up. I'm fighting a battle with the dozens of birds using the bird bath.
Crapped all over my patio. I have given them a good telling off but they don't seem to care.

[olgaandcoda]

Hedgehogs eat the pellets, put them somewhere the hoggies can’t get to.
I have some massive slugs in my compost bins! Orange ones! They are doing a job in there, and keeping off my hostas!

[EssexSue]

Originally Posted by mick

That's a bit of a coincidence Tom as I've only just sprinkled some this afternoon as they were nibbling my Nicotiana. That's not a euphemism.

Is it because people are eating them thinking they are Smarties I wonder. Life is getting more and more challenging at my age. I can't even open a box of washing powder tabs now. Realign the twenty arrows whilst pushing down then turn anti-clockwise whilst breaking your nails on the four clips underneath.

Mick

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They have altered the washing gel containers because stupid kids were daring each other to eat them on line. I'm fed up because I was using the old style to store things!