Got snails in your garden? With this environmentally friendly trick they’ll be gone in no time!
This is how you get yourself a snail free garden!
Snails and slugs are often unwanted visitors in any garden; both varieties are very willing to eat through your flowers, plants, fresh vegetables and herbs. Has your garden been invaded by these slippery creatures? This is how you can get rid of them very easily.
The weather conditions are an especially big influence on the presence of snails in your garden.
Snails
Snails pose one of the biggest problems for gardeners. They eat both dead and alive vegetable material and dead animal material. Especially at night they flock to your garden for a veritable feast, which means your garden will look very sad in the morning. Snails start procreating in April already; they lay 400 eggs that hatch three weeks later. That’s why it’s important to get rid of them before they become true pests.
Preventive measures
Since prevention is better than cure it’s important to take preventive measures. You can do this by regularly hoeing your garden so the top layer of soil dries out and the snails won’t be able to move around as easily. Also avoid dark and damp patches in the grass (this is where snails like to hide) and place nest boxes around your garden to attract birds that will eat snails. Has the damage been done already and have the snails taken over your garden? Then there are some other things you can do to get rid of them.
Garlic
The 100 percent natural, environmentally friendly product to get rid of snails is garlic! The strong and penetrant smell of garlic is no fun at all for a snail and it will make sure the slippery fellas disappear from your garden.
These are the steps you should take:
- Take two bulbs of garlic and crush them.
- Bring one liter of water up to a boil and add the two crushed bulbs to the boiling water.
- Let the water with the garlic boil for 10 minutes.
- After the 10 minutes are up, let the water cool down and sieve out all of the garlic and other scraps.
- Keep the garlic water in a sealable bottle.
- Add two generous tablespoons of garlic water to one liter of water in a spray bottle or watering can. Stir it properly!
- Spray the plants that are being eaten by the snails and you’ll see they’ll disappear!
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