14:09, Tue, Apr 8, 2025 Updated: 16:57, Thu, Apr 10, 2025 Gardeners have been issued a warning by garden and ecology experts over using slug pellets in their garden this year - because they may be ...

Too many farmers try to trap slugs at the wrong time and lose faith in this important approach to gauging the true need to apply slug pellets. But with the pressure on the industry to cut metaldehyde ...

Gardeners are being warned not to kill slugs and snails or use pest control pellets this summer. The gastropod cousins are usually found during wet autumn days under sodden leaves - but they can even ...

Slugs pose a major threat to many crops in all but the driest season – and with high field populations during 2016, this autumn is shaping up to be high risk. While pelleting is an invaluable part of ...

There are always plenty of slugs and snails around, ready to munch through your flowers, or home-grown fruit. But now, despite their habit of leaving your plants full of holes, gardeners are being ...

10:53, Tue, Feb 11, 2025 Updated: 10:53, Tue, Feb 11, 2025 Gardeners who have slug pellets in their shed have been issued a legal warning about using them after a law change. They have long been used ...

Gardeners are banned from putting out slug pellets to protect their gardens from Friday because they are poisonous. Instead gardens will have to use beer to kill the slugs that are targeting their ...

As the spring and summer months approach, gardeners are being advised against using slug pellets in their gardens due to the harm they can cause to various forms of wildlife beyond just slugs and ...

They have been used against the slimy vandals of the vegetable patch since the 1940s. But from today gardeners are banned from putting out slug pellets to tackle the pests. Instead, they will have to ...

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