Hygeia Nature Safe Slug & Snail Barrier 1.2Kg

Nature Safe Safe Slug and Snail Barrier contains ground oyster shells. When applied as a continuous strip around vulnerable plants, it acts as a natural barrier helping to prevent slugs and snails from attacking plants.

• Oyster shells are a rich source of nitrogen, calcium and magnesium
• Delivers Nitrogen for plant growth / Magnesium to allow plants take in surrounding nutrients and helping chlorophyll production and Calcium for a balanced soil pH, helping to neutralise acidic soils
• Oysters are a wonderful carbon sink, taking vast quantities of carbon out of the atmosphere. By adding oyster shells to you garden you are utilising a by-product of the food industry and helping to maintain a circular green economy.
• The nutrients in Oyster shells also make it an ideal soil feed for earth worms, helping increase their populations which in turn helps churn up your soil giving the maximum advantage to your roots.
• 100% Natural, Child & Pet Safe, and Pollinator Safe
• Oyster shells are composed of chitin which has additional benefits. Chitin stimulates the multiplication of beneficial chitinolytic microorganisms in the soil. These microbes produce beneficial enzymes called chitinases. Chitinases have biocontrol properties, helping to decrease the population of plant pathogens.