Vitax Slug Gone Wool Pellets, Natural, Organic Barrier To Protect Borders, Pots & Containers From Slugs And Snails, Long Lasting - 5L

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

Absolutely useless. The snails just went straight over it to get to the plant.

Didn't do the job plants still got eaten 😞

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.

I am somewhat disappointed with this product. It doesn't go very far - one bag did not cover two pots of hostas - so it would be quite costly to do a large area. I don't know whether it will work since the smell has attracted my dogs who are eating it, breaking the hosta shoots in the process, and probably doing themselves no good whatsoever. Nice idea, but with significant drawbacks.

I liked these as they are all natural no smell or toxins . The bag was quite big they did help deter some slugs but you need to use quite a bit of them