Plants to ward off snails?

Question

I'm starting to have a snail problem in my backyard. Especially around my vegetables. I don't want to use pesticides. I heard that there are plants that if when snails eat them they don't like the taste or it'll kill them. Do those plants exist and what are they?

Answer 1

shallow pans with beer also solve this problem

Answer 2

You might want to add some eggshells to the bed or other rough type materials such as oak leaves to keep them out. Also take some beer put into a cap (like an old mayonaisse jar), turn upside down, pour beer in...they like beer. Warning tough don't put in the bed, place outside the bed and just take the cap and dispose of when full. You want them to get into the cap in the beer but not get out, usually they drown...

You asked for a list of plants they don't usually bother:

Here is a list of some of the plants that snails and slugs don't seem to like: azaleas, basil, beans, corn, daffodils, ferns, freesias, fuschias, geraniums, ginger, grapes, holly, lavender, mint, parsley, rhododendrons, roses of Sharon, sage, and sunflowers.

Also you might want to encourage birds to the garden, they eat snails and slugs...

Oh and you could also try salt, they don't like salt either.

Answer 3

Put some bite into you mulch, To keep hungry insects and slugs away from your cucumbers and other vegetables, mix strips of aluminum foil in your garden mulch as a bonus benefit , the foil will reflect light back up on you plants for a larger crop. This work i have tried and got enough vegetables on my crops that i could sell on curb side to markets.

Answer 4

whilst the salt gets moist it is going to dissolve, and get into the soil. Salt interior the soil may well be very stressful on plant roots. some species are salt, or drought tolerant, yet finally you will harm your planter's soil doing this. you could attempt putting the salt in some variety of pan or plastic sheeting so as that maximum of it maintains to be in place, yet i'd recommend you employ "Snail nutrition," or "Snail bait" instead. It kills the snails quite effectively devoid of harming the vegetation. Works properly on different pests as properly...

Answer 5

Save your eggshells and crush them up into the soil. Keeps snails away.

Answer 6

Marigolds ward off snails, and ants.

Answer 7

Just post a recipe of escargo, and let the neighbors worry about them.....lol