Monterey - Sluggo - Wildlife and Pet Friendly - Snail & Slug Killer, OMRI Listed for Organic Gardening - 2.5-Pounds

I have had bug issues for months and 1) could not figure out what was eating my plants and 2) did not want to use any harmful pesticides. Luckily, a person who worked in the landscaping industry told me what the possible cause was based on the "bite" marks on the leaves...snails and/or slugs. I did some research for wildlife/bird/pet safe deterrents and Sluggo came up as the #1 option. Well, not only did I see almost immediate results but I can rest assured that it is not harming anything other than the slugs & snails. I now use it periodically to ensure that there are no more infestations. All in all, a GREAT product for your plants and the environment.

I live in the PNW, slug central. It rains here all the time and the climate is built for them. I also have a pond, with beautiful, gigantic, fat, lily style foliage surrounding it. They were eating everything though. it was so bad, that when we would turn leaves over - we could find 20 easily in a matter of minutes. I didnt like the idea of any sort of pesticides because we have dogs and I have targeted my garden to wildlife (birds etc). I read the reviews on sluggo and saw it was animal safe, so I decided to try it. It began working instantly. I had to cut all of the previously damaged leaves out and as soon as I applied sluggo all over the garden, I stopped seeing any new damage when new growth came in. I have a large yard and i can tell when I need to re-apply. I wont see damage for a couple months and then all of the sudden, a few holes here and there because they are back, so I do a big re-application. Birds do eat it, which is irritating. it doesnt seem to hurt them, but if you have a large yard - I actually moved my bird feeder to a different location, so birds wouldnt hit the parts of the yard that I want the Sluggo to remain in. So this stuff totally works, but.. the snails will eat it, and the birds will eat it - so you have to re-apply through the season. I went through 2 bottles in my back yard this year. Totally worth it though. my plants look great. I will continue to use. i just sprinkle it all over the plant.. on top of leaves and a lot around the base. in my beds - I sprinkle it throughout. I'm in Seattle, it rains a lot.. doesnt seem to affect the pellets ability to do it's thing.

This product is so easy to use and I don't have to see the dead slugs because they are not going to die in that spot. No smell is a plus! Very clean to touch and I felt safe using it. This protected my strawberry plants and day lilies. Now the question. I just wonder if everybody got a container half full at most. Mine was!! I did not weight or anything because I trusted Amazon to ship the new item, but I do remember thinking why they use such a big container for this much pellets.

Works great on snails, but my puppy keeps eating it. Last night she somehow got the whole thing open and spread it all over everywhere and was licking it up when I found her. Day before yesterday she did the same with coffee grounds. It says this stuff is non-toxic, but also hazardous to humans and pets. I really doubt it would hurt a dog much--this isn't the first time one of my dogs has eaten a little of it, and nothing ever came of it. But she's a young puppy and still only 30something pounds, and I really wasn't sure how much she ate before I found her scarfing up the mess, so just to be safe, I did the hydrogen peroxide trick anyway (you force-feed the dog hydrogen peroxide, and they vomit. I can't even count how many times I've had to do this to dogs over the years. It works every time.). Anyway, so now I have to buy more. But it's totally worth it! My petunias are beautiful right now, blooming healthy and lush and bright, whereas they were chewed down to the nubs of their leaves when I first put this stuff in the flower bed. As far as I can tell, my main problem is with snails. They are voracious and they wouldn't leave my petunias alone before I got this stuff, and they were even starting in on my begonias, which they're usually not all that interested in. I noticed a couple years back that the slugs and snails around here really love both tomatoes and petunias, both of which are in the nightshade family (I only knew this because I realized the two plants look sort of similar when they're very young, and they seem to be the favorites of local slugs and snails). So maybe this year I'll be able to grow my tomato plants before the slugs and snails completely massacre them. Or maybe it'll just keep the slugs and snails at bay while the stupid tomato worms take over :( We'll see!

Let me start out by saying that I purchased a new home last year, and spent several months plotting and planning my garden for this Spring. I was so excited when seedlings started germinating, and beautiful foliage began emerging. But my excitement quickly turned to horror as an unseen enemy began devouring all of my leaves, berries and making small seedlings disappear entirely. I thoroughly checked every leaf on every plant, but was left scratching my head when no pests were to be found. Then one rainy morning, my enemy finally revealed itself... Slugs! I must have killed over 20 before rushing off to work, and decided that I would tackle the problem that evening. I was in shock that evening when I plucked and squished over 100 of the slimy critters from my veggies and flowers. I quickly realized I was in over my head when I repeated this process over the next couple of nights, and I was not making a dent into the population. Over the next several days, I tried many suggested slug control remedies such as beer traps, crushed eggshells and coffee grounds. Nothing worked effectively. Then one morning, I received an e-mail from a group I am a member of called "The Big Bug Hunt" with a headline about spring pests. I went to the section regarding slugs, and they mentioned this pesticide-free product called Sluggo. I had been very skeptical of slug baits because I won't put poisons near my food crops, and had heard they kill other wildlife as well. Sluggo being an organic alternative, I went ahead and ordered a bottle and when it arrived, I watered and lightly sprinkled the pellets around every area that I had seen slugs. Im not kidding when i say that I have not seen a slug in any of these areas in over a week! It almost seems too good to be true! I have only found a couple slugs on my entire property since the application of Sluggo, and those were in areas I didn't treat... far away from my veggies and flowers.