By kips

14 July 2008 09:00

Can anyone tell me how to get rid of snails without using chemicals or slug pellets?

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Yours Expert Answer

By Yours magazine

Slug and snail killer without the use of chemicals. Yours gardening and Garden Answers web editor Geoff Stebbings offers some useful tips.

Slugs and snails are the worst pests in most gardens. If used correctly, slug pellets pose no threat to wildlife but there are other methods if you want to avoid chemicals.

From April to September you can add a biological control, usually sold as ‘Nemaslug’ to the soil. This is very effective but only kills slugs, not snails. Many gardeners find that copper rings around plants work well, or you can trap them by leaving some lettuce leaves on the soil – it attracts the pests and you can then pick them up and dispose of them however you see fit.

Geoff Stebbings is editor of Garden Answers. For more information visit Gardening Mags.