whats a natural way to ward off or kill snails?
I have them especially bad in my garden because i am the one with the most plants but I am broke- i cannot spend money on anymore snail poison so aren’t there some natural home remedies for this, lol, sounds silly- but i gotta work with what i got- thanks ahead of time, these things are driving me bonkers! all on my front door!
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Put salt on them, it’s kind of cruel but it gets rid of them!
salt, it drives em nuts! just sprinkle it around, they can’t stand to crawl over it.
BTW, snails are good eating, steam em like clams and dip em in garlic butter
I watched a show one time that said if you dig a little hole in your garden, and you stick a cup in it so that the edge of the cup it level with or just under the level of the ground and you fill it halfway with beer, during the night when the snails come out the most, the snails will be attracted to the smell of the beer and will fall into the beer and it will drown them. You just have to replace the beer everyday.
Salt definitely works, I can attest to that. Sprinkle salt *around* the garden, not in it. It works for slugs too. The worst thing is that you’ll have to clean up snail shells, but the garden will be fine.
Snails like dark, damp spots; they don’t tolerate dryness or sunlight.
Snails like to get together under boards.
Putting a few out to lure them will work. Then lift the boards to destroy.
Sand will cut them.
Wood ash will work.