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Pass it on: slugs and snails

9:54am Wednesday 19th March 2008

By Tim Quantrill »

Slugs and snails are back on the loose around the garden so, instead of poisonous pellets, why not try more eco-friendly ways of deterring them from chomping your prized plants?

Some of the remedies to try include spreading broken eggshells or putting a band of copper around the base of a plant, leaving out pots of beer for them to fall into or encourage their natural predators like blackbirds and thrushes.

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