a bird needs to eat over 40 slugs with pellets to be affected, They go to their hiding places (which are inaccessible to cats, hedgehogs, and birds) and die, so a periodic check to remove dead slugs will keep everything safe! Also, I don't think the birds are going to starve if you are using pellets!! They have wings to fly to where there is food and cover.
"Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?"
I've tried putting signs up asking slugs and snails to leave my hostas alone but they ignored it. I have now started to write the warning on little blue pellets and it seems to do the job.
Fair point about snails ? although they don't seem to be a problem in my garden maybe the slugs chased them away? I appreciate nematodes are not cheap but neither are plants I only mentioned it as an option I actually thought £12 to covet 40 sq metres wasnt too bad
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I use pellets after all the natural remedies failed for me. I go out in the morning and clear away and dead ones so the wildlife don't eat them.
I have been putting organic blue pellets down and they were disappearing, today I caught magpies eating them! hope they don't harm them.
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a bird needs to eat over 40 slugs with pellets to be affected, They go to their hiding places (which are inaccessible to cats, hedgehogs, and birds) and die, so a periodic check to remove dead slugs will keep everything safe! Also, I don't think the birds are going to starve if you are using pellets!! They have wings to fly to where there is food and cover.
"Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?"
Matthew 6:26
Going to say it again....nematodes are the best! Perfectly safe for everything except slugs and snails
nematodes might well be best , but they're obscenely expensive if you have a big area.
I'm leaving it to the birds, frogs , hedgehogs and the very occasional sprinkle of pellets if one area is under attack.
The nematodes don't kill the snails, only slugs.
I've tried putting signs up asking slugs and snails to leave my hostas alone but they ignored it. I have now started to write the warning on little blue pellets and it seems to do the job.
Fair point about snails ? although they don't seem to be a problem in my garden maybe the slugs chased them away? I appreciate nematodes are not cheap but neither are plants I only mentioned it as an option I actually thought £12 to covet 40 sq metres wasnt too bad
Birds don't starve if you remove slugs.. I tried putting slugs and snails on my bird table and the blackbirds ignored them!