Garden snails: 10 natural remedies to keep them away from your plants

Garden snails: 10 natural remedies to keep them away from your plants

How to keep snails away from your plants with these natural remedies that actually work (and which ones you shouldn't use)

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Le snails they can destroy the plants and flowers in your garden. So, if you are wondering how to control snails you are in the right place, because today we want to show you how to make it natural repellents to save your green space.





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What is the garden snail 

Chances are that if you have snails in your garden these are the common ones, also called ones brown garden snails. The scientific name is Helix Aspersa, and is identified by having a rounded brown colored shell and gray body. 

But how to control and keep garden snails away? Here are a few natural methods to get rid of these parasites.

Introduce predators

An effective organic control of snails consists in introducing gods predators, like the garter snake. This likes to eat garden snails and other common pests. Another solution is to introduce the snails taken off, which do not harm the plants but eat the common garden snail. 

Sand, diatomaceous earth or egg shells

Many grainy substances are effective natural snail repellents. You can use granular sand, crushed eggshells, sand or diatomaceous earth to spread around the plants to discourage pests from coming. (Read also: The fluorescent pink snail survived the Australian fires)

Create hiding places

Another solution is create perfect hiding places, to create a dark, cool and humid place. Snails love dark and cool areas; then, use a board, a piece of carpet or a thick cloth to create such an environment, which will attract snails and once collected you can remove them and move them away from your garden. 

Create barriers 

You can create natural snail repellents using, for example, del copper wire to be inserted around the plants, as if it were a protective barrier. You can create a real safety net, which prevents the snail from reaching the plant.



Coffee grounds

I coffee grounds scattered around the plants discourage snails from sneaking into your garden. (Read also: Install "offensive" cards to annoy the snails and make them escape from your garden)

Diatomaceous earth

La diatomaceous earth consists of finely ground fossil remains of prehistoric freshwater diatoms. They are used in varying degrees to eliminate bedbugs, cockroaches and some species of parasites. 

Repellent plants

To repel these animals from your green space, we recommend that you include snail repellent plants, such as garlic, chives, or chamomile. Many gardeners, for example, use garlic as natural repellent against the more common pests, others use chives by tying the leaves around vulnerable plants.

Recycled wool waste pellets

- wool scraps they are a by-product of the wool production process. This is turned into pellets which can be distributed around the plants as a slug barrier. Furthermore, over time the pellets degrade and serve as nourishment for the plants themselves.

Nematodes

Biological control of snails and snails is effective in small gardens if done carefully at the beginning of the season. How to do it? You water a solution of nematodes (microscopic worm), which penetrate the snail, infect and kill it: an unpleasant solution, but certainly natural, organic and effective. 

Wheat bran / corn bran

Another one totally natural and biological solution it is to prepare small piles of wheat bran or corn bran on the ground; these are eaten by snails, causing them to dry out.



Beer traps, are they really effective?

Le beer traps they are highly not recommended, because in addition to not being effective, it has been shown that they attract snails even more. 

What are? These are mugs full of beer that are sunk into the ground around the plants, but these do nothing but attract even more pests, which fall into the trap and drown in it. This solution is not only morally questionable ineffective, as beer has such a tempting smell that it can cause the opposite effect.

Repellent plants 

There are several plants that act as natural repellents. These are all those species that contain bitter substances or poisonous ingredients, which have hard or hairy leaves and have thorns, such as: 

  • ferns
  • geraniums
  • nasturtium
  • poppy
  • parsley
  • peony
  • radish
  • pink
  • rosemary
  • beet
  • chive
  • celery
  • thyme
  • tomatoes
  • onion

(Read also: How to use garlic against garden pests)

Harmless snails

Not all snails do damage; in fact, some of the species we meet in the garden they do not pose a threat to vegetables and flower beds. Most, in fact, do not cause damage because they mainly feed on dead plant material; among these we point out:

  • large Roman snail: it even helps to cope with nudibranchs by eating their eggs. 
  • bandaged snails: they are domestic snails that do not cause significant damage to the garden.
  • tiger snail: The ten to 20 centimeter long nudibranch eats parts of dead plants and animals, as well as the eggs of the Spanish snail.
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