Vitax Slug Rid Orgaic Slug And Snail Repellant Natural Wool Barrier Pellets 300g Vitax is a fourth generation family-owned business with roots laid down long before the modern gardening industry as it is known today even existed. Our origins can be traced back to G H Richards, established in 1880 and based in Bermondsey, South London. Mr Richards was a manufacturer of insecticides and supplier of horticultural sundries. During the Second World War, my grandfather, Frank Henry Gooding, a commercial tomato grower and sales agent based on Guernsey, was forcefully evacuated to London. After the war he became involved with, and later took control of, Synchemicals a company formed in this period of austerity and rationing to promote the use of growth hormone products to growers and nurseries.