Before you all fall about laughing and thinking 'Bunglies lost it again', spare a thought for people like me who REALLY do have a phobia about slugs and snails!
Yesterday I was outside planting in my little garden, and I put my foot down, with only socks on and squashed a snail.....I screamed to the extent my neighbour came out all v. embarrasing. I had to throw my socks away and scrubbed my foot, last night I had nightmares of a snail! Honestly! Now all of this has got out of proportion, but I am afraid to touch a plant without surgical gloves on in case there is a snail on it. I put down slug and snail pellets (bird friendly) and yes you may remember 'slimewatch' as I used my video camera to watch it's demise. However I have been told by my neighbour that the pellets actually attract the things that is why I have so many in my garden. I found 25 on the patio yesterday and 3 slugs....I have heard that crushed eggshells stops them as they dont like sliding across them, but not in my garden, they are eating all the new polyanthus I planted.
I know it's funny but I am really scared of them and I just wondered if anyone has any bird friendly remedies to get rid of them? Is it just me or is there anyone else with a slug/snail phobia?