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 ...

British gardeners have been banned from using slug pellets to kill slugs and snails because of the "unacceptable risk" they pose to other animals such as hedgehogs, birds and even dogs. Metaldehyde ...

Adele has worked in gardening for 25 years. She grows a wide range of plants at the Which? Gardening trial grounds and is our compost expert. In this article The best organic slug and snail controls ...

WILDLIFE campaigner Angela Squires is campaigning for people to stop putting down poisonous slug pellets after three hedgehogs died last week. Angela, who founded Poole’s Crash hedgehog hospital, said ...

Gardeners have been banned from putting out slug pellets to protect their plants and vegetables from the gastropod. This is because slug pellets contain metaldehyde, an organic compound that is toxic ...

A BAN on slug pellets that has been three years in the making comes into force today – meaning gardeners are forbidden from using the product from now on. The pellets, which have been used since the ...

Slugs cause a lot of damage in your garden - leaving irregular-shaped holes in leaves, stems, flowers, tubers and bulbs. They also leave silvery slimy trails behind wherever they move. Controlling ...

Gardeners have been banned from putting out slug pellets to protect their plants and vegetables from the gastropod. This is because slug pellets contain metaldehyde, an organic compound that is toxic ...