Des Higgins wrote:
I normally manage to happily ignore slugs and snails EXCEPT at his time of
year when they massacre seedlings or
my Cardiocrinums which only come into leaf for a few months and just sit
there and get eaten down to the bulb before they can put on food for the
following year.

With choice plants I get an empty 1 ltr or 2ltr plastic bottle ( Coke or the like)
and cut off the top and bottom.What's left acts as a sleeve which can be
removed
if you wish when the plant grows large (e.g.delphiniums,sunflowers),or
left on if
surrounding plants conceal it.It is free,non-poisonous,and usually
successful.

Sam