The snail seeming to us the most harmless by sight being at the same time is dangerous wrecker of garden. Cabbage, tomatoes, flowers – everything can be eaten or spoiled by ordinary snails or slugs. Therefore it is necessary to get rid of such uninvited guests.
Instruction
1. Try not to create favorable conditions for existence for the wrecker. Snails love the damp soil and perfectly hide and breed under boards and windbreak. Do not thicken landing of vegetable cultures, you regularly cut the grass, do not leave on the earth of board and stones. Digging over the site, destroy layings of eggs of the wrecker.
2. Bring on the site toads, frogs or lure local hedgehog. All these animals are the most important enemies of snails. Hang out feeders and lodges for birds. Birds considerably will reduce the number of mollusks.
3. Plant on perimeter of kitchen garden and around ridges silnopakhnushchy plants: garlic, lavender, thyme, parsley, rosemary, mustard. Pryanoaromatichesky cultures not to taste to these wreckers.
4. Periodically salt compost heaps and dust holes where snails often board. Build around valuable plants of funnel from plastic bottles. The wrecker will not be able to overcome such barrier.
5. Put protecting strips on the way to garden cultures. Keen edges of shell rock, fir-tree needles, fine gravel, sawdust and egg shell can become material for such protections. It is possible to put around ridges with trench vegetables filled with water. Water is barrier to slugs and snails too.
6. Make or get special traps for snails. Periodically examine them and destroy those individuals who have got. Add in the liquid traps attracting mollusks: juice, beer.
7. Spray plants on site perimeter with the solutions which are frightening off slugs: infusion of garlic, mustard or coffee. Opudrite of plant and earth dry wood ashes, slaked lime, chalk, tobacco dust.