Vitax Slug Gone Wool Pellets, Natural, Organic Barrier To Protect Borders, Pots & Containers From Slugs And Snails, Long Lasting - 1L

Works well preventing slugs and snails getting to your plants. Be careful near walls or overhanging plants though, sneaky snails can drop down to the top of the plants.

We used this, it’s ok but the critters still nibbled leaves. Not as bad though if we hadn’t used it

Didn't work. Slugs still destroyed my new plants.

I’ve given it 3 stars just because it’s so expensive. Ridiculous price. I have used it surrounding a couple of herbs of which the sage was being eaten and lemon verbena I read that slugs like it. Although they hadn’t touched it. Online give you all sorts of advice on which plants slugs like and which they didn’t. So far the advice has been wrong. I have also used it around the periphery of a sweet pea bed to stop the slugs getting in. It’s too expensive to put all over the bed. I’m hoping the smell puts them off and they don’t use other means of getting to the leaves. But slugs and snails arent supposed to like the smell of lavender but they love mine. The pellets do smell though. Like a farm yard. So far so good. I haven’t had to pick a load of slugs out of my herb and sweet pea bed since I bought this. As I’m new to gardening I’ll be looking out for cheaper alternatives as I couldn’t keep up with this price. But my new sage was being eaten so had to try something quick. I had some daisy’s also being eaten but now the pot is on wheels it seems the slugs have a harder job. They haven’t even got stuck on the gaffer tape I have around my dolly aa it’s on wheels too. Wheels seem a good alternative for pots.

excellent so far.

Who would have known that a wool barrier is so uncomfortable for slugs and snails that they won't cross it. I tried these first a few months ago to protect a slug's favourite food - Hostas. I now have several full grown plants that don't have a single hole chewed out of them. Amazing. I haven't used any toxic slug pellets, copper bands (useless anyway), slug pubs or nematodes and the plants are untouched. I've gone on to protect Cosmos, Chilli and sunflower seedlings with equally good results. The good thing is that the product doesn't appear to harm slugs, which are actually good for breaking vegetable matter down in the garden, provided they don't touch the precious things I've spent money and energy on!This is my second purchase and I increased my order to two packs as they'll last me well into next year too. The pellets are very easy to use, just poured around the base of the plant to form a shallow barrier of about 4 inches all round. Then water and see the pellets bind together to form an anti-mollusc wall of woe. They eventually decompose to benefit the surrounding soil, but so far mine are still in place after nearly six months and show no sign of disappearing yet.The pellets do smell of sheep and the farmyard, so I prefer to use gloves to handle them, but there's nothing nasty to cause skin damage.One bag was enough to cover about a dozen pots and three plants in the flowerbed. I've learnt to be a bit more economical with the amount I use for each plant and the new bags should go much further than that. I really do recommend this product strongly.

This was expensive for what you get which is not a lot. I had planted 4 hostas in a flower bed and they were being completely destroyed by slugs. I had already bought plastic plant protectors which did not work - the slugs simply crawled over the sides. I emptied some of these pellets inside the plastic protectors and hoped that it would deter the slugs. It didn't! As soon as it rained, or I watered the plant, these pellets became a lump of wet mush which the slugs simply crawled over. Go not waste your money.

I’d never heard of this until I saw it on gardeners world. We have an annoying slug problem ( as I think most gardens do) and we also have a small dog so slug pellets are out of the question. I really dislike the little blighters ...especially when they have tucked into my Lilly’s and dahlias. I decided to give this stuff a go. You put it around the base of your plant making sure it’s about 6 cm wide. It doesn’t have to be high pile...it’s more about the width. Once you’ve done that you water it and it creates a texture that slugs and snails don’t like to walk ( or slime) on. I have to say it’s been pretty successful. My dahlias have recovered and are getting established. They only downside is after about two weeks the wool becomes less fluffy and not so unattractive to slugs. I did discover a slug trail across the wool in one pot. How dare they! So I reckon you should replenish this after it’s been down a couple of weeks. This does make it quite expensive but I suppose you have to offset that against protecting expensive plants. I would definitely use this again and would probably order a big tub to make it more economical in the long run. As slugs and snails are here to stay I think I will always need to keep a supply of this in the shed. Much better than beer in jam jars and safe for pets too. It does also have some nutrients in so your plants will be doubly happy.