Steve also uses organically approved slug pellets, with ferric phosphate. Their key ingredient is iron. The slugs and snails eat it, and they then don’t want to feed any more. If birds or hedgehogs eat them, they won’t be harmed.
I also use slug pellets with ferric phosphate. But I minimise their use by only using them to protect small and young plants. Once plants are a reasonable size, they seem to withstand snail and slug damage.
nlike with sheep’s wool, you need to scatter these thinly. And Steve says that they need to be damp in order to work properly. So if the soil is dry, water it, either before or after you scatter the slug pellets.
There will always be some nibbled leaves when you garden without chemicals, but you don’t notice them in a full border. And there is also some damage to petals, but I have noticed that this is mainly to the older, outer petals.
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