The snails have eaten all the leaves of my potato plants and are half way down the stalks, Helpppppppppppppppp

Question

Will the potatoes continue to develope and should I bank them up, whats my next move to save the crop from snail invaision.

Grossberger, that was cruel, this is my first attempt at organinic living and you tell me to go and buy, its not the cost of the potatoe its the mount Everest affect ''I did it my way''. I bet Frank Sinatra would appreciate the effort

Answer 1

get some beer , sad to lose it , and put in plastic containers and clean out everyday that will help

Answer 2

I know how to get rid of snails from your plants. I had them on my property and I discovered that if you go to home depot and but copper coil, they sell it in different widths (it does not matter buy the cheapest) It looks like a coil of copper tubing. You cut it with a tube cutter or a needle nose pliers or a strong pair of shears or juse bend it back and forth until it snaps(this is too time consuming) You make rings (circles) around the plant and fasten it with the garden pins that look like hair pins the circle has to close or the snails will crawl through.
Why it works? Because the wet snail sets up an electrical charge when it goes over copper. Easy isn't it! Gardening catalogs sell copper strips but it is way to expensive and this does the trick for very litte money.

Answer 3

Well lets start with logic.........No snail poison it might poison the potato's , It would take a heck of a lot of eggs shells and if you had to eat the eggs first your would have clogged arteries. Salt will seep into the soil, maybe killing the plants.
My friend the only safe thing is " The Beer".
That does work!

P.S. To- 'cakes from africa' potatoes are a tuber they grow Under the ground.

Answer 4

This really works for slugs and since snails are like slugs maybe it will work too. Put a bowl in the ground and burry it up to the top rim so that the top of the bowl is even with the ground level and pour beer in there. I don't know why but they love beer and then they get drunk or something but they end up drowning. I had a huge slug problem and tried this before bed one night and the next day I had like 10 dead slugs. It's pretty cool.

Answer 5

Leave them lil' snails alone. Anybody who grows their own potatoes to save cash when a bag from the supermarket costs,what, 60p? deserves to have their crops eaten.
Big up those snails!

Answer 6

You are going to divert their route by putting slug pellets in a place away from your plants but put a lot of it down. it wont be plain sailing because the snails will be coming from other peoples gardens.

Answer 7

egg shells will help, the beer is the best at killing them, they love it and fall in and drown. if you really want to get rid of them, follow the snail trails and try to find out where they go during the day. mix 3 tablespoons of aluminum sulphate with a gallon of hot water and spray the surrounding area and plants. it really works and will solve your slug problem.

Answer 8

If you can get rid of the slugs, then your potatoes will most likely still sprout out of the stalks where the leaves were.

Answer 9

use slug pellets and the potato should continue to develope and if you are lucky new leaves should start to grow

Answer 10

i just use slug pellets, they stop snails and another one is which snails and slugs don't like is' pebbles or stones around the plants, i tried this last week and it works,around my strawberry plants.good luck.