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By kips
14 July 2008 09:00
Can anyone tell me how to get rid of snails without using chemicals or slug pellets?
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.
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PALMER says
I have always found that a circle or barrier of ordinary table salt round the plant, does the job. Place salt on paper, so as not to harm your soil and watch the little critters shrivel up.
11 August 2010 09:30
maggimaggi says
One more thought, copper tape works well if you put it around your pots, I tried this when I tried to grow cabbages in pots, perfect, but I forgot about the one thing that loves cabbages, butterflies!, so now my perfect cabbages have been eaten by catterpilars!! I like the sound of Vaseline and WD40, I'll give those a try, and the oats, what great tips, thank you
01 August 2010 14:46
beer traps work really well, use something shallow and put it near any plants that get nibbled regularly, next morning just get rid of what you find
01 August 2010 14:38
Jhammond says
Salt that will stop them in there tracks
20 July 2010 12:38
Carrow says
For the last 5 years we have used Nemaslug and it works, then next year we have the same level of infestation. I belive that I am invaded by my neighbours slugs who go looking for pastures new.
06 October 2009 21:00
