We have been using Slug Rings for several years on our Wiltshire small holding. Since we don't actually poison, trap or kill our slugs, there are always plenty left for the ducks to gobble up.

A large Slug Ring protecting the tender new spring shoots on my favourite delphinium.

Little pale slugs are attracted to lettuces, so they need to be kept safe in large rings.

Effective and easy to use.

Slug Rings are 2 inch high copper rings which are placed around individual plants to keep slugs and snails out. These pests detest crawling on copper, so Slug Rings make a very effective barrier. Since the copper rings cause no harm, you can have healthy plants and healthy slugs and snails too.

Here in Monkton Farleigh we started using copper rings twelve years ago to save our plants from being eaten without harming our ducks, who would happily eat slugs and snails contaminated with slug pellets. We grow a lot of vegetables and can't imagine how we would manage without Slug Rings protecting our young plants from disappearing overnight.

Copper rings proved so effective against slugs and snails that in 2002 we patented Slug Rings and since then we have made hundreds of thousands of rings, sold all over the country by mail order.

In April 2004 Gardening Which? conducted trials of barrier methods to protect plants from slugs and snails, using hostas as bait. In their May 2005 edition they published the results and it came as no surprise to us that Slug Rings were proven to be the most effective barrier protection of all those tested for plants in the ground and were recommended as a 'best buy'.

Slug rings come in two sizes, small for single stem plants and seedlings, and large for plants like hostas, delphiniums, lettuces and lupins.

Slug Rings are guaranteed to last a lifetime, they can be used over and over again for season after season.