By Ad44downey
Kent,
United Kingdom 
Ferric Phosphate Slug Pellets Query: Hi, one of my plants in a garden container was getting eating alive by snails and slugs so I put some Ferric Phosphate slug pellets into the container BEFORE reading the dosage instructions. I think I put way too much in, they're now mixed in with bark mulch so can't really get them out. My question is, is it likely to poison my plant? Or is Ferric Phosphate totally benign to plants? Thanks for any advice.
19 May, 2017
Answers
Many thanks for the reassurance. I had feared that a great excess of a normally beneficial substance could be harmful.
19 May, 2017
I throw that around like confetti in my hosta garden - no casualties yet...no slugs either!
20 May, 2017
Ferric (iron) and Phosphate (a fertiliser) should, theoretically, be beneficial to plants. Personnaly I rarely read doseage instructions for things like this and seem to survive, plants as well.
19 May, 2017