Snails ... These gastropods cause a lot of trouble to gardeners: they damage cucumbers, tomatoes, their favorite delicacy - cabbage, as well as all other vegetables that people grow with such love. Therefore, it would not hurt to find out how to get rid of snails in the garden. Yes, it’s just to get rid, because by themselves, these mollusks will not leave your site. You need to try using different methods. We will talk about this in our article.
Fighting snails in the garden. Advice
- Nowhere is easier. The simplest thing that can be offered is to try to weed the beds in a timely manner, destroying weeds. The fact is that excess grass is a kind of shelter for mollusks, because snails lead nightlife, and during the day they hide in a large amount of wet grass.
- Pets' corner. Try to bring in your garden sworn enemies of all snails - birds, frogs and hedgehogs. Do not worry, these animals will not harm your site, but rather, on the contrary, will be useful to you! For example, make birdhouses and feed the birds. If you have a pond in the garden, bring frogs, and snails — how it blows away! Make a living corner for hedgehogs: leave the natural corners of field herbs somewhere along the edges of your garden, build piles of cut branches of fruit trees (for example, behind a barn or a bathhouse), and a hedgehog with your family settles in.
- How to get rid of snails in the garden with the help of special tools. Special polyethylene films are sold, aimed at combating shellfish pests. Spread such a film overnight throughout the personal plot: on the walkway, under fruit trees, under bushes. In the morning, when you turn it over, you will see a whole cluster of snails. Collect them should be a scoop in a bucket of water. After - cover it with a lid so that the mollusks do not come out. There they will die.
- Offensive smell. One of the effective ways to deal with snails in the country is to sow the worst enemies of these mollusks - garlic, onions (as well as sage and parsley). We know that a favorite treat of snails is cabbage. Plant as much garlic or onion as possible next to it. For example, the smell of onion-batun will once and for all scare away slimy creatures from your cabbage.
- Sawdust. Sprinkle some sawdust (or wood ash) along the beds. Since the mollusk's belly is slippery, they will feel uncomfortable, to put it mildly, on the sharp woody surfaces.
- Chemistry . If you still have not decided how to get rid of snails in the garden, then resort to the help of chemicals. Treat the household plot with special superphosphate (powder). Read the instructions for use carefully and, most importantly, before using the product, and not after!
- Big booze. This is a very interesting and creative way to get rid of snails in the garden. The fact is that our summer gastropods are great lovers of beer, especially the varieties of "porter" (dark). Do you understand what we are talking about? Dig in the area where the highest activity of snails is observed, small vessels ("baklashki") and pour beer in them. The most greedy of the mollusks, after bulging their eyes, will certainly rush to the place of the "big drinking party" - there they will drown! Those that are smarter - just get drunk and fall off their feet. Throw them such a “party" several times - and forget about snails for the whole summer!