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WD40 could help gardener's control slugs 
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Wednesday, June 18 2008 18:20:28 by Alison Patel
Alison Patel writes: Apart from being unsightly creatures, slugs are a menace to most gardeners and, according to the Which? Gardening website, they can eat double their weight in plants every day.
Which? Gardening has produced tips for deterring slugs from valuable plants so that people will be free to enjoy their garden without fear of invasion.
Ceri Thomas, Which? Gardening editor, explained one of the more mercenary measures for reducing the slug problem.
Ms Thomas suggested gardeners "try a biological control such as Nemaslug or Defenders Slug Control, which work by releasing slugs' natural enemies into the soil and killing them underground".
Other tips included using copper tape or mats around pots as snails and slugs hate it, sprinkling slug pellets was another suggestion or using liquid concentrates as an alternative.
A slightly more unusual tip to control slug infestations was to spray WD40 around plant pots. Apparently it "seems to work well".
Last year's wet weather lead to 70 per cent of Which? Gardening readers having a "serious slug problem" and it is estimated that there could be as many as "200 slugs per cubic metre of soil".
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