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Slugs and Snails - the four main slug species in the UK are the black, keel, field and garden, and all have one thing in common – they want to eat your plants! Long term no.1 in the RHS Garden Pest List pest charts, slugs and snails will happily munch through most vegetable and plant seedlings which emerge in the garden. Given the widespread unpopularity of slugs and snails, it's hardly a surprise that we've uncovered and tested a comprehensive range of products to enable you to choose the best method to reduce your garden population - from hungry nematodes; traps capable of catching in excess of a hundred slugs per night; decorative copper rings and tape to garden-friendly granules - there should be something here to keep those numbers down.

And there's one important thing to remember; all the various Natural Choice products designed to catch, kill or prevent slugs and snails from destroying your garden are all organic. There's absolutely no threat to children or pets, birds and hedgehogs which feed on the slimy creatures will not be harmed and no nasty chemicals will be introduced to the food chain.

 Learn more about Slugs and Snails in the garden, the problems they cause to gardeners and which course of organic pest control action you should take from Julian Ives, the Harrod Horticultural Pest Control Expert

For more info on Slugs and Snails, download our Pest Guide - the Little Book of Pests - an invaluable, 24-page pest guide packed full of garden pest information and organic control measures! Downloadble PDF version file size 2.65MB.
Nemaslug Slug Killer
Nemaslug Slug Killer
from £9.95
Nemaslug Slug Killer is fast gaining a reputation as the organic way of winning the garden battle against slugs and this silent killer owes its success - and the adulation of gardeners, allotment owners, kitchen gardeners and vegetable growers across the country - to a greedy little nematode named phasmarhabditis hermaphrodita.

Simple to apply, impossible to overdose and totally safe to use around children, pets and wildlife, Nemaslug Slug Killer slips seamlessly into any organic gardening set-up or otherwise and each treatment will give 6 weeks protection against marauding slugs. Just mix the nematodes with water, choose a watering can with a coarse rose - or make life even easier with a hosepipe applicator - and water on the garden from the start of the growing season once soil temperatures hit 5ºC.

Our range of Nemaslug Slug Killer pack sizes (small and large) and programmes - developed by gardeners for gardeners - will help you find just the right treatment for your garden and allow you to grow slug-free vegetables and plants at last.
Buy the 3 treatment programme for 18 weeks worth of protection and save £4.00 on postage

Please Note: This live product is despatched to UK addresses only!

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Slug Circles (4m)
Slug Circles (4m)
£9.95
Four metres of Slug Circle is the very last thing slugs and snails want to see arriving in your garden as this rot-resistant tough green plastic barrier and shockingly effective slug copper tape double act keeps plants of all shapes and sizes well protected from these greedy garden pests.

This versatile slug defence system is simple to install - simply cut the 5cm (2") deep green plastic barrier and secure with a strip of 3cm (1¼") wide copper tape - and rings of any diameter can be constructed within seconds. But don't just limit your slug protection to circles; the 4 metre (13') long flexible green barrier can be formed into almost any shape of your choice! The Slug Circles can be used to protect all susceptible garden plants - right from the smallest lettuce seedling up to an established hosta - is safe to use around children and pets and fits perfectly into any pesticide-free organic gardening set-up. Full instructions, hints and tips included.
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Advanced Slug Killer Pellets
Advanced Slug Killer Pellets
£6.95
These rainproof, blue Advanced Slug Killer Pellets are attractive to both slugs and snails and contain a naturally occurring active ingredient - ferric phosphate - which, when consumed, cause the slug to stop feeding. The pellets are eventually returned to the soil after being broken down by micro organisms (into iron and phosphate), remain effective after rainfall and unlike other inorganic slug pellets are completely safe to use around children, pets and other garden wildlife. Supplied in 575g screw top containers, Advanced Slug Killer Pellets are particularly effective against snails.
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Slug Copper Rings
Slug Copper Rings
from £18.95
Slug Copper Rings Slugs put the brakes on the gardener's biggest enemy, slugs, as they are unable to attack plants surrounded by one of these copper rings. The copper ring forms a physical barrier around plants and also gives slugs an unpleasant shock-like sensation when they try and cross or climb the copper, caused by a reaction between the metal and the mucus they rely on to move.

There are two sizes of Slug Copper Rings available; the 10cm diameter version and a larger 17cm diameter size for larger plants. Both sizes of Slug Copper Rings are supplied in a packs of six.
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Slug Copper Bands
Slug Copper Bands
from £14.95
With slugs and snails consistently featuring in the top 3 of the RHS Garden Pest List, these attractive Slug Copper Bands will form an impenetrable barrier up to 8.5cm (3") in height once pushed into the soil. Simply slip over individual plants or easily link bands together to form larger barriers and marauding slugs and snails that try to cross will immediately retreat once their sensitive nerve endings make contact with the copper. These simple to use copper slug defence rings will give year on year service protecting countless salads, cabbages and hostas and are available in two sizes; Large and Extra Large.

Read Chris Beardshaw's Expert Advice on the subject of Pest Control
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Slug and Snail Shocka Rolls
Slug and Snail Shocka Rolls
from £15.95
If you've been frustrated by constant slug and snail raids or your home grown vegetables or treasured ornamental plants, you may have gone as far to consider an electric fence to keep out these plant-devouring molluscs; and in truth, the Slug and Snail Shocka Rolls aren't far off that idea! Although slug rings, traps and copper tape are perfectly adept at keeping slugs out of beds, pots and away from individual plants, gardeners have always found it difficult to keep larger areas slug and snail free but the 0.3m x 4m and 0.9cm x 5m Shocka rolls do just that.

The upper surface of the fabric is coated in a resin containing copper hydroxide, which gives any mucus-based mollusc attempting to cross an unpleasant tingling sensation - and not only do the Slug and Snail Shocka Rolls keep your plants safe, but they act as a well insulated, weed resisting, water permeable mulch which can be easily trimmed to size and cut to plant through. Slug and Snail Shocka Rolls are used commercially so take a leaf out of the big boys' book and invest in some heavy-duty slug prevention today!
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Slug and Snail Copper Tape
Slug and Snail Copper Tape
£5.21
Slug and Snail Copper Tape will protect your pots, planters, greenhouse staging and raised beds from marauding slugs and snails - it's the go-anywhere alternative to slug rings and slug traps. Supplied in a 4m roll - plenty to kit out all your garden beds and pots for a full season. The sticky-backed slug copper tape, which features a serrated edge, gives both slugs and snails serious problems as they try to cross - a toxic reaction occurs between the metal and the mucus slugs and snails produce to move, giving any attempted raiders an unpleasant electric shock sensation and sending them slithering back to munch on less well-protected plants!
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Slug Inn (pack of 6)
Slug Inn (pack of 6)
£12.95
Let slugs check-in any time they like but never leave by laying this multi-pack of Slug Inn traps around your vegetable plot to maximise your catch - features a rain-proof lid and a removable inner sleeve allowing easy disposal as well as beer and bait to be reused. Pack of 6.
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