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Here’s how to keep slugs and snails off plants without using pellets that can harm hedgehogs.

This non-toxic and self-adhesive copper tape creates a protective barrier around pots or containers to guard your plants.

Slugs and snails hate copper so should give them a miss.

And it won’t harm any other wildlife or pets in the process.

It should protect plenty of pots. Visit britishhedgehogs.org.uk.