Tricks against slugs and snails

Against snails, go place your coffee at the feet of your shrubs. It's free and more environmentally friendly.

Jacques

The beer trap works very well but there is controversy on the subject, it seems to attract slugs Area according to some people. After research, I give you a magic potion that I did in the 60s for slugs. It works great!

In a plastic bag, I put the sound j'humidifie well with rubbing alcohol, and then I close the lid tightly. In rainy weather, I spread my product. If you have lots of slugs in the garden, the result is spectacular. I have not tried the gel for lighting barbecues (not yet on the market at that time). Probably the sound can be replaced by another medium. Methanol from ethylated spirits is the main element.

Slugs are they alcoholics?

Recycling

Put evergreen boughs (or just a lot of thorns) to repel slugs

Nicole

When the young shoots of hostess to point the nose off the ground in spring, add soil around the young shoots a thin layer of rock dust.

Bichette

To protect your pots against slugs, it is sufficient to surround the pot of copper wire.

Rita Elliott

Very effective against slugs and snails in the absence of beer (I have a toddler and I can not leave beer in the garden!), Return the remains of half a grapefruit (drained of its flesh) near the plant will protect them and undesirable group. There's more pick up and dispose of it!

Chriss

Remove wooden boards or flower pots returned to retrieve the slugs that go there to spend the day sheltered.

Alain

All things having to slug beer are banned as indeed beer attracts slugs up to 100 meters, if you want attract slugs neighbor's home there is no better thing! That said you can use to attract your slugs out of your garden!

Daniel Smets

I advise against slug’s beer because hedgehogs love it and I found all my pots back and buses: they have a real orgy, and I do not know how they went home at dawn!

Bernardou

Cons slugs and the like: get haircuts and sow them on the ground to protect. Slugs will be irritated by the hair and secrete up dehydration.

Alain P.

To eliminate slugs, give them beer in a cup placed in your flowerbeds. They love it and will not recover.
Roland

I use beer (preferably dark) deposited in small cups, even bottle caps plastic (milk, for example), or pots side of the trade. Just shelter from the rain these baits.

Christian Delaby

Against snails and slugs, a little trick to protect your seedlings, just cut plastic bottles in half and pierce small holes and then place them on shoots.

Gaudin

Use natural predators such as hedgehogs, frogs, toads or blackbirds.
There are different ways to take away green slugs and snails using the fact that they do not like crawling over rough surfaces:

• Wood ash
• Sawdust
• Egg shells crumbled
• Disc sander

With a tin half full of beer or sugar water (to be renewed every 3 days) along the ground buried in your garden, you attract to blow on the slugs that will drown.

Use diatomaceous earth is applied around the plants we want to protect and preferably in early spring. The shoots of your plants will quickly cover the land that is white. Generally it is not necessary to make further application during the summer.

Ginbel

Cons slugs already colonizing the garden, something simple and environmentally friendly: the salt. Just flush out the slugs and sprinkle a little salt to destroy the undesirable. However, attention to plants near the salt is also a weed killer.