My box turtles love to eat them & I seem to have depleted my supply in the back yard. I used to be able to find them easily enough. I know they're out there, I just can't find them! I need to keep them beer & pesticide free so my turtles won't be harmed. I'm sorry, but they need to eat live things to survive, & I can handle snails.
2007-07-09 14:50:46 · 7 answers · asked by jans 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
Water an area of your garden one hour after dusk. Then an hour later go out with a flashlight and a five gallon bucket.
They're everywhere, They're everywhere!!!!
2007-07-09 14:56:06 · answer #1 · answered by Greg L 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Since they need moist places grapefruit or orange rinds inverted in the garden will bring them in. Pieces of board laid on the soil or old wet carpet anything they can get under from the day where it will be moist. The next day scrape out the slugs and snails then dispose of them in your usual manner.
For bait try a mixture of 1 tablespoon (T) yeast, 1 T flour, 1 T sugar, and 1 cup water. Slugs are attracted to the odors given off by the yeast fermentation process so the yeast growing on the flour & sugar will produce the same smell with out alcohol. Put this out in shallow dishes as snail feeding stations.
Or try comfrey (Symphytum peregrinum) as bait. Slugs will come in droves to eat this. Other trap crops: beans, horseradish leaves, calendula, lettuce, marigolds, and zinnias. Simply take dry dog food and put enough water on it to make it slightly soft. Place it in piles in slug-infested areas. Check later in the evening and dispose of bait and slugs however you want.
2007-07-09 16:22:38 · answer #2 · answered by gardengallivant 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just put two pieces of wood on an angle, like a little tent.Put it in a shady part of garden, and pop some lettuce leaves or cabbage or something like that.Snails will love it .I find them all under and down the sides of a rockery I made.Do your turtles eat worms? You can get those from Aquarium shop.
2007-07-09 15:01:21 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
make a canalette and place a screen on that running water and the snails will be trapped in the screen for easy collection.
2007-07-09 15:02:58 · answer #4 · answered by dante s 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sneak up on them very very quit, there quick little snots OK just kidding i don't know try no alcoholic beer
2007-07-09 15:00:20 · answer #5 · answered by JC N 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lure them with cucumbers!
2016-11-17 07:42:15 · answer #6 · answered by Kay 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try earthworms if you can't find snails..
2007-07-09 15:11:52 · answer #7 · answered by DrB 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋