Fighting these troublesome pests keeps many garden owners awake at night. However, it is enough to follow a few basic rules to reduce the occurrence of snails to a minimum.When sowing or planting young plants, try to make a barrier in the form of a plastic fence at the edge of the beds or bed - then it will be much more difficult for snails to reach the plants.
We can also sprinkle the patches with ash, sawdust, gravel, sharp pebbles or any material that will injure the body of the snails. You can also sow the beds or beds with watercress, the smell of which mollusks do not like very much.The same is with the marigolds.Let's plant them among the plants, and their smell will scare away intrusive guests.You can also spray the plants with a solution of water and crushed garlic cloves.
The taste of garlic discourages snails from further consumption of our plants. Snails lay their eggs into the soil.If the soil is often loosened with garden claws or rakes, sooner or later the snails will change their place of laying eggs and their existence.Perform this operation in warm and sunny weather. Then the eggs and young snails die and are brought to the surface of the soil.
Another method of controlling these pests is frequent loosening of the soil with a hoe.The last resort should be the use of slugicidal preparations, which we use pointwise, sprinkling plants eagerly visited by snails.There are also several ways to lure snails. For this purpose, you can use a mixture of beer and sugar, which you pour into the containers.
