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

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.

Purely a barrier product, will not get rid of a problem population. Cannot be used to protect dogs from illnesses carried by slugs.

I bought these believing l was doing my "bit" for non harming slugs and snails but as more of a deterrant going by what it says on the sale ad. I dont want to use pesticides in my garden for any reason,l have a dog plus l am growing edible fruit and herb plants for the first this year. So this product seemed ideal. I sprinkled them as per instructions. My hands smelled like sheep poop. I watered them in as instructed , went back out later to find the slugs had a nice cosy wool mattress to lie on while they munched their way through my alpine plants. I was not a happy camper. Like most keen gardners ,l spent a small fortune on my garden as l wanted to share the edibles with my neighbours .l certainly won't be buying this again. Complete waste of time and money.

I'm not sure how effective this was against determined slugs... I think it depends on how delicious they find the target plants.The pellets protected my pumkin seedlings for the most parts - though the pumpkin plants also have fine spines (which i didn't know about until I went to move some vines and it felt like little shards of glass) so they may be able to protect themselves.Salvia on the otherhand - they were absolutely devastated. I spread the pellets around making a nice little carpet around the plants to protect them - but the slugs decided it was worth the itchy foot to get to the plants. There was not much left but stalks.As I have a dog - I was going for the organic approach I would be worried about metaldehyde based poisons - which are super effective, but I don't know how persistent they are in the environment, so kept them to potted plants.The pellets smell like sheep (they are wool) but, very sheepy - the dog was quite interested in the smell of the bucket. I think they are useful for some plants, but it appears as though ornamental Salvia plants are not one of them.A beer trap may be more effective in some cases.

I thought I would try this as I don't want to use poisonous chemicals on the garden. I have hedgehogs that I feed and they are the best natural snail defence system but even they can only eat so many snails at one go. Slug be gone does work, I have used it round hostas, dwarf bean plants and clematis, the only downside is you use more than you think you will and it is expensive. I have found you need to put a thick covering of the product at least 10 inches out from and all the way round the plant. You then have to water the product or it would blow away.Slug be gone, obviously, as it's wool from sheep smells very strongly of sheep so the garden smells for a few days but it does disappear. I didn't mind the smell it smelt very wholesome.This does work, it's expensive as you do use a lot but if you have a conscience and don't want to harm the snails or harm those that eat the snails or you would rather have a safe environment for your children and pets to play in give it a go, I think you will be suprised.

I have used these for a couple of summers now and they really do work. Best to put them in your pots at the time of planting before any slugs have had a chance to get in the pots. I've found that you do need to top them up a couple of times during the season, so it's not the cheapest if like me you have a lot of pots! On the other hand it's easy to use and so much better than pellets that will kill more than your slugs.

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.

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