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Letter: Deep freeze will dispatch your slugs and snails

Published 13 April 2022

From Erin Moore, Bellingham, Washington, US

After amassing slugs and snails using Rory Mc Donnell’s bread-ball bait, the question arises of “termination” (5 March, p 48). I use a method I learned decades ago from a gentle but determined gardener. Collect your molluscs into a bag, seal it and place in the freezer where they naturally “go to sleep”.

Issue no. 3382 published 16 April 2022

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