[demicav]

Always interesting to hear about natural ways to avoid slugs. Mind you I leave them to it, they don't bother me at all. My garden is overgrown and full of wildlife, that's how I like it. Hedgehogs and Slow worms are natural predators of Slugs so it seems to me that they should be encouraged into the garden which they definately won't be if pellets are put down. In fact Slug pellets can cause agonizing deaths in Hedgehogs so I stay well clear, in fact I can't say they would be beneficial to anything other than the plants and there are other interesting ways to protect them.