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More than one gardener has had a negative experience with this pest.
Snail raids can destroy freshly planted seedlings in the garden overnight.
They love fragile and flexible seedlings, which they can fatally damage with their attack and thus destroy all your efforts.
Young cabbage, rhubarb, kale, beans, but also cucumbers can become targets of these pests.
Today we will advise you on how to protect your crop from them!
Preventive Tips – How to Prevent Snails from Attacking Your Crops
Keep the crop out of damp and shady corners.
Snails love tall grass and like to hide in bushes and also under flower pots.
Weeds are also a source of moisture and shade, which snails like.
Snails literally seek out such corners and hide in them during the day.
Water in the morning – during the day the soil will dry out enough and you will make it more difficult for snails to access your crop.
Do you grow rhubarb?
Snails literally adore it – its large leaves create an ideal shelter for this pest, and to reach rhubarb, these creatures can travel even greater distances.
So, if you are growing it and want to preserve the remaining harvest, place rhubarb at the edge of the beds, not in the center of the vegetable garden.
However, there are also plants that snails do not like and literally repel them – these are hard, bitter and prickly plants or herbs with a strong aroma.
Snails do not like thyme, sage, rosemary, lavender, and marigold.
If you plant these plants around the perimeter of your garden, you will create a natural protective barrier for snails.
It will also help if you hide the most vulnerable, fragile plants among these herbs.
Larger seedlings with over 4-5 leaves have a better chance of survival.
Creating a barrier – for example, you can use prickly branches of sycamore, thistle, hollyhock, or needle.
Crushed eggshells will also work, but only if they form a protective strip wider than 10 cm.
Spilled coffee grounds also work, as caffeine is poisonous to snails.
A path of sawdust covered in coffee grounds also works great.
Use of copper (copper alloy) – when in contact with copper, snails feel unpleasant discharges that prevent them from climbing over such a barrier.
They should be at least 3-4 cm high.
How to get rid of snails that are already in the garden
The easiest way to attract snails and collect them is to create a spot that you moisten and cover with a piece of cardboard.
The next morning you will find snails in that spot and you just need to remove them.
Orange or grapefruit peels also act as excellent snail bait.
Beer traps – simply pour into containers and arrange them in the garden and scatter in the flower beds.
Yeast works just as well.
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