Info problem with snails

[nikito]

anyone knows an ecological way to get rid of snails because they are eating my crops in my little garden?

 

[herm0016]

diatamacious earth. sprinkle it around the crops, when the snails go over it, it will kill them. it works great for our rasberries and other crops.

 

[NutBucket]

Salt works too.

I've heard you can do a strip of foil? Supposedly they don't like to cross it? Could be remembering incorrectly but I know my mom made some sort of physical barrier like that.

 

[nikito]

diatamacious earth. sprinkle it around the crops, when the snails go over it, it will kill them. it works great for our rasberries and other crops.

thanks ... I check about it and many people says that is working

 

[mindless1]

Salt works too.

Try to use one that is more plant friendly than sodium chloride, like calcium chloride or epsom salts. Both of these are essentially fertilizers so kill two birds with one stone.

For something more long lasting (than salt, in rain) and common than diatomacious earth, you can use ground egg shells. This too, eventually fertilizer after enough acid rain dissolves it, but don't count on it being your primary calcium fertilizer (compared to burying it) because the decomp rate is so slow.

An old school thing to do is bury to soil surface, a tuna can full of beer. They'll crawl in and drown.

 

[BoomerD]

There are pet (and human) safe slug baits that will work on snails. The most effective slug baits are toxic to dogs and cats...and can be hazardous to humans when used in veggie gardens.