How can you get rid of snails/slugs from the garden?

Answer 1

Clear out the old leaves & mulch which they may be hiding in. Then spread around one of these materials which will cut & dehydrate the snails & slugs, & eliminate them: sharp sand, egg shells, lava rock, diatamaceous earth, cedar, oak leaves & needles from conifers. Herbs such as Rosemary, Lemon Balm,Wormwood, Mints, Tansy, and seaweed will repel snail & slugs.

Sprinkle Chili pepper or coffee on the slugs/snails. Use coffee grounds around acid loving plants, lime around plants that don't like acid conditions.

Oat bran should kill the slugs/snails. Just sprinkle some in your garden. Also, you can trap & drown them with any liquid fermented material, such as yeast disolved in warm water.

If you water in the morning, your garden will dry by evening, cutting down on areas for the snails/slugs to breed in.

Good luck! Hope this helps.

Answer 2

The best way to get rid of snail es is to scatter slug pellets from February onwards as this is the time they are about to multiply.

Re-apply every few months or so (never put out in the rain as they just melt).

Dont worry about the enviroment, its not been proved that they kill garden birds.

Answer 3

Depends on how humane / green you want to be.

Ultra humane/green: Copper tape around your plants works good. You can buy it at specialty garden shops and some OSH stores.

Green: Beer in a pie pan. Bury the pie pan up to the rim and fill with cheep beer, like Bud or Coors. They are attracted to it. You'll have to empty / refill daily.

Green / PIA: Get up just before dawn each morning and hand pick them.

Effective but not green: Cory's Slug and Snail Death.

Answer 4

The fully green way is to make your garden home for hedgehogs, foxes, badgers & thrushes - although the damage that badgers & foxes will do (GREAT diggers) may just outweigh their usefulness in dealing with the orthopods!

I have tried a spray of onion water - chop an onion into warm water, let it steep for a few hours then strain & use the water as spray on the soil & up you most at risk plants. Had a reasonable degree of success - didn't smell too wonderful but then it was on the veg patch at the end of the garden!
Tried garlic - they loved it - I reckon I had pre stuffed escargot for a while there :-(
Most effective but most work - evening/morning patrols especially when it's damp - don't dispose of them over the fence though - they come back & bring all their friends with them - you need to either dispose of them in salted water or take them to a layby away from home (and, if you're being nice - away from ANY home!!)
Also tried - eggshells around specific plants - quite good but it has to be quite a wide band of eggshells; copper tape around pots - excellent, but they then take up skydiving and will go up nearby plants and use their weight to get over to the succulent one both you and they want!; pellets - I only use the supposedly pet friendly ones - but you do have to remember to keep going out & replacing them - even the waterproof ones can't hang on in the type of conditions we have been having in the UK!
Best of all? Grow everything in hanging baskets!!

Answer 5

Plant onions every five feet or so, maybe three feet.
Look it up, natural repellant to snails and other pests.
be sure and double check, I can't find the book to check it atm.


Reft
well, this is not what I was looking for, but it reminded me that garlic plants also repel
and here is a site on a more pro active way of handling it
http://www.make-stuff.com/gardening/garden_formulas.html

Answer 6

1 cup of beer, 1 tbsp. of sugar, 1tsp. of bakers yeast mix these ingredients together in a bowl let it sit for 24 hrs. then pour it into shallow aluminum pie pans set the pans so the rims are just at ground level
try looking this web site up www.jerrybaker.com I have his backyard problem solver book and there is alot of cool organic tips.

Answer 7

Salt will work as others have described. Beer will work too. Set out little dishes of beer. The slugs will drown themselves in the beer as the yeasty smell attracts them to it.

Answer 8

They're probably thinking how can they get rid of these humans in their natural habitiat.

Apparently they don't like crawling over oak chippings or gravel so put some of that down in appropriate places, just keeping them away is a better option than killing them

Answer 9

I used to take a tin pan and fill it with some beer. This attracts the little buggers and then after they drink it, it shrivels them up, then I throw their little carcasses into the garden as fertilizer. =) It does work great, trust me.

Answer 10

The little critters hate vaseline ,just smear it around , and around tops of plant pots. They will soon clear off to the neighbours and save you a fortune in having to keep buying pellets.