I have snails all over my garden.there are hundreds of them. what is the cheap and best way to get rid of them

Answer 1

Hand picking them out as often as you can is the best remedy. I know it seems daunting at first, but try it and you will see a serious reduction in numbers as you go. You should also set out small containers of beer each evening. (My grandma used to use egg shell halves.) Snails are attracted to beer and will actually drown themselves in it. Please don't use pesticides and putting salt in a garden is a good way to ruin the soil for good.

Answer 2

I had snails everywhere and picking them out didn't seem to work, the next day there would be hundreds more, so I tried this home remedy. I took old cups...like the plastic ones from Taco Bell and dug a hole in the garden where the snails were, I then put the cup in up to the rim, and I know this is going to make most of you guys quiver...I filled them with beer! Cheap, rotgut BEER. The snails go right to it, and drown in the beer, you can go out every day and empty the snails out and just add more beer. It took me about 3 weeks to get rid of them and my husband was thrilled because I was buying beer...something I never do!

I don't use the salt method because now you are adding salt to the ground which will eventually leach into the area around your plants, and then your plants will get very thirsty and die.

Answer 3

that's necessary word that maximum snail blooms are brought about by skill of overfeeding. In those situations, the only reason that the snails are overpopulating is simply by fact they're feeding on the surplus foodstuff that the fish leave in the back of. Watch your fish whilst feeding, in the event that they do no longer consume all their foodstuff after 3-4 minutes or much less then you certainly are overfeeding. There are some advertisement snail killers attainable that interior reach fish save vendors ought to attempt to sell you. If used as recommended those remedies might kill your snails. although, those chemical based strategies would desire to be prevented simply by fact they have a tendency to kill the micro organism that shop ammonia and nitrite ranges in examine. In turn, this would additionally kill your fish.

Answer 4

Salt works good, but you have to do this almost every night. I purchase the pellets or granules sold at garden stores. Just spread the granules around and it will kill them for quite a long time ... even after you water. I have never use the diamateous earth, but I have heard that it works well, especially if you have pets that may eat the granules. I have a very nosey black lab, and she has never eaten the granules in 8 years.

Answer 5

go to nursery or home store like Lowe's and get any brand of slug bait that contains Iron Phosphate as the 'killer' ingredient..... it's safe to have around kids and pets, too!... and it dissolves into fertilizer.... but the slugs and snails love the stuff, eat it, get a bad tummy ache and crawl away to hide and die..... it's great stuff!!!.....

there are other slug baits out there that are poisonous to kids and pets and wildlife, too, so be careful that you get the right one.....okay?..... I put some down about monthly, less as the season starts to end, cuz most of the beggars are DEAD already!!!... YAY!!!.... (can you tell I hate them?.. I have lots of hostas that they want to eat holes in!!!!)....

here's a site that talks about it and about coffee as a repellant to save your plants from them....

http://www.plantea.com/slug-baits-coffee.htm

Answer 6

Diamascous Earth. (basically ground up seashells that act like razors when the snails cross it)

Answer 7

Salt will fix them up.I used rock salt and they only cross the boundary once.Cheap and works......

Answer 8

poor salt on them as you see them. put a bowl of beer in your garden...sounds weird but works.

Answer 9

Put out bowls of beer they will crawl in and die.

Answer 10

put salt on them or the areas that they inhabit.