On kitchen gardens often there live snails. They are not harmless at all as they can spoil the plants planted by the person, gnawing in them holes. Besides, snails carry helminths with which pets, and after them and the person are infected. Therefore it is necessary to struggle with snails.
1. If you want to banish snails from the kitchen garden, make so that it at you it was uncomfortable. For a start it is necessary to take care that they could not find the shelter in the afternoon. Remove the weeds left there from beds get rid of unnecessary boards and stones. Also well mow clean all grass, loosen the soil that snails have not hidden in cracks and dredging. If the crop is already reaped, destroy all remains, in them snails hide in the winter.
2. After you have brought order, it is necessary to create adverse conditions for snails. They very much do not love all rough because it is difficult for them to move on uneven surface. Therefore fill around beds and plants on beds something porous. It is possible to take fine gravel or egg shell, something similar.
3. After that make traps for snails. They love beer therefore it is possible to moisten in rag beer, leaves, boards. Snails will hide there in the afternoon, and closer by the night you will bring together them and will destroy in strong salt solution. It is possible to dig out small grooves and to fill in them with water, and to cover from above with shabby rags. Snails will get there.
4. After you have complicated to snails life in the mechanical ways, call to the aid natural assistants. why not to lodge on the site of toads? Dig for them small reservoir, they will come. Also enemies of snails are hedgehogs. They can be allured by means of dog food. Hedgehogs and toads should build shelters for the winter, then they will not leave your site.
5. Snails birds eat with appetite. Establish more lodges for birds and feeding troughs in the winter. Then in the summer birds will help you to expel snails. It is also possible to get on the site - directly on perimeter of all beds - spicy herbs. Snails do not like smell of parsley, garlic, sage, rosemary.