How to get rid of snails? – Sweek's advice

Snails are a real problem for the gardens. These molluscs are true harmful that sneak overnight and feed the leaves and fruits of the plants. To prevent them, we booked our best anti-literature advice in our article.

Why do you have snails and snails in your garden?

Lugal and snails such as clay and ventilated soils. They also appreciate the debris of decomposition plants and prefer a temperature between 15 ° and 20 ° C. They need humidity to move. If at the beginning the snails love to face the leaves, sowing and flowers, as soon as it is hottest they sink into the ground and prefer tubers and roots. Snails prefer to eat decomposition plants. They usually do less damage to plants than snails.

In the middle of nature, the number of snails and snails is naturally regulated because there is a balance between the resources and the number of gastropods. However, in the garden and in the vegetable garden, the ecological balance is less present. The predators are rarer or absent and the gardens are often too clean and clean, which means that snails and snails often go to the flowers of your garden or the plants of your garden.

The different natural methods to get rid of snails

Several natural solutions are available for you when you want to leave snails and snails of crops and flower beds. Durable and effective, these solutions are more expensive for the most part, so don't wait and find out what it is.

Although this trick does not always agree on everyone as for its effectiveness, beer is useful to get rid of some of your snails. In fact, snails like the smell that this liquid emanates that attracts them almost automatically to the beer trap. When the snails fall into it, they inevitably end up drowning.

Here's how to prepare your trap. It began a drink in the land of the floor and letting the container slightly exceeds to avoid killing the other good kinds of insects in the garden. So fill the glass half and is ready!

• Egg shells

Egg shells are actually effective against snails and snails only when they are reduced to crumbs. In fact, the acute plot of the pieces of shells dissuades the snails from approaching the plants. The thin skin of the snails is so fragile that they hurt them, so they don't risk crossing the shell threshold. All of this produces nua and 100 %effective and effective shells. Be careful, however, to use this technique after protecting the place infested with rain. In fact, if the shells are wet, the snails slide on the shells without hurting. Therefore, your anti-literature method will no longer work.

Coffee funds are an excellent repellent against snails and snails if we use it intelligently. In fact, the coffee grounds are effective only when it is completely dry. It will therefore be necessary to let it dry before spraying it on the plants in the vegetable area and at the foot of the plants in your garden. Be careful not to put too much. In fact, the garden plants do not appreciate this dust so much. Apart from this light detail, the coffee funds, thanks to its powder consistency that attaches to the snail, is a super anti-bit repellent.

In addition to being rich in calcium, making your soil richer and promoting the flowering of your flowers, the wooden ashes are excellent repellent. Due to their powder consistency, they manage to keep the snails and snails of distance plants. However, the wooden ash only works when dry. Wet, has no effect and dissolves the earth on the ground.

• Barriers of natural material

To scare the snails of the garden and the vegetable garden, you can also use copper barriers. This natural material is very effective against snails. At the contact, the snails receive an electric shock that dissuades them from going further. Copper barriers are in different forms:

• The adhesive tape that you can place on pots of pots and squares
• The copper tube that must be quite often and heavy enough not to pass under the snail
• The copper networks that keep snails and prevent them from going on

• Use of repellents

Some plants are perfect for effectively fighting against gastropods. Whether you cry near vegetable flowers and involves protecting them or using them for mulching or tea, plants are full of super virtues.

If you planted eyelets near the plants you want to save, the snails will be happy to go to them, leaving your other healthy and except for plants. In the same way you can also use repellents to not only move them, but in fact to eliminate them. Of course, this suggestion is safe for the animal and is very natural. Plant the garlic or onion in the vegetable area and geraniums in the flower of the garden and you can finally say goodbye to the snails.

As we told you, you can also opt for mulching or tea. In fact, some preparations of the plants are very effective in overcoming gastropods. Hemp muulating, oak leaves or tobacco biella are perfect for stopping the progression of the gastropod thanks to their fine particles that hinder the animal.

Finally, making a tea based on sage auction and mixing it with unsaponed water is equally effective once sprayed on the ground and snails.

Targeted methods to get rid of snails

• Use of slide traps

In addition to the incomparable beer trap, other equally effective traps allow you to frighten or eliminate harmful molluscs. Among these traps, we find:

• The trap of corn starch: this economic powder attracts snails and kills swelling in the stomach. To create this type of trap, you will just have to put a little corn starch in an inverted jar on the side and the turn will be played!
• Cardboard traps, wooden boards or tiles: molluscs like to take refuge while moving to spend the night. So, you can catch them early in the morning, because everyone met below.

• Use of anti-pelle pellets

Anti-Catch granules represent great threats to molluscs, because they gradually contribute to their death. In fact, once ingested by the molluscs of your outsiders, the pellets attack the animal from the inside. Parasites decompose and gradually create a natural fertilizer for your ground. To use them correctly, we advise you to humidify your ground and position them, not to bury them, around the plants. In contact with the humidity, the pellets will grow, they will attract snails and poison after a few hours.

• Iron phosphate products

Iron phosphate or ferric phosphate is a mineral compound found in the earth. In contact with water, it becomes harmful to snails. This is timely when you know that the snail comes out only when the weather is wet. This solution is harmful to snails and leads their death when they ingest it since it comes to stopping her diet. Without food, the animal cannot thrive. To use it in the best possible way, we recommend using iron phosphate dust at the end of the day or at the beginning of the day, in other words during the richest periods of the day. Sprinkle the feet of garden plants and the feet of the garden plants of vegetables, paying attention to you. In fact, the ferric phosphate also attacks man's skin, so it is recommended to put adequate protections before using them: gloves, glasses and clothes with long sleeves.

How to avoid snails in the garden?

• Use physical barriers to protect plants

To overcome the snails, it is possible to use barriers to stop the progress of the predators. Here are some:

• The salted barrier: salt has the distinction of humidity absorption, therefore spraying the salty soil, will absorb all the humidity of the snails and inevitably lead them to their loss. However, salt can damage the floor and kill the plants, which is why we advise you to protect on earth before spraying the salt. In addition, avoid putting salt in contact with water because it will dissolve it and therefore cancel its effect on snails.
• The sand barrier: the acute and captivating consistency of the sand irritates and wounded the snails that therefore dissuades them to go on. Therefore, the creation of a sand barrier will prove to be a good way to keep them away.
• The algae barrier: algae is a softer way for your land and your plants that salt. It does not damage the ground and absorbs the humidity with which it confronts. However, it remains less effective than salt.

• Practice a rotation of crops

Snails like to take refuge where weeds are located. As a result, it is useful to practice the rotation of crops. In fact, when we rotate cultures, we reduce the risk of weeds. Therefore, the molluscs are found without shelters and therefore are not destined to stay in your garden for a long time.

• Keep the garden clean and well kept

Both for our friends the snails or for any other predator insect, having a well -kept garden considerably reduces the risk of invasion. In fact, molluscs tend to take refuge in debris and weeds. Therefore, if you regularly take care of your garden by eliminating everything that could «get dirty», the molluscs will be less inclined to annoy you. In addition, the elimination of weeds helps to promote the healthy growth of your flowers and preserve their beauty.

Gentropods benefits?

Snails and snails can really be useful if they are not too numerous. They have used a certain since they are part of the food chain of different species. In addition, they also recycle organic matter such as branches, the cortex that can grind and digest unlike other species. The bows of soils, a very important species in the fertilization of soils, consume their excrements. The gastropods have a bav and a mucus full of sugars and complex proteins, which is very good for the ground and plants in your garden. Finally, the snails sneak into the earth, so they allow you to ventilate the land and improve drainage. That's why, killing the snails and snails of your garden is not a good solution especially if there are few.

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