Things You'll Need:
- Small disposable plastic bowls
- Beer or fruit juice
- Dog food
- Salt
- Sawdust, sand, eggshells, gravel or cedar bark
- Commercial snail bait
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Step 1
Clean your garden daily and dispose of weeds, dead leaves on the ground or branches that hang on the ground. Anything that can make a home to a snail must be removed. This also means moving out any pots, rocks or logs.
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Step 2
Bait your garden with small piles of wet dog food and shallow bowls of beer or fruit juice. The dog food will attract the snails and you just have to pick them up and dispose of them. The beer or juice is also an attractant and the snails will drown in it.
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Step 3
Shake salt on any snails you find; they will begin to melt instantly. Hunt them in the early morning.
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Step 4
Spread cedar bark, sand, eggshells, gravel chips or sawdust around your plants. These are all snail irritants and will help control them in your garden.
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Step 5
Practice snail birth control. Hunt for snail eggs under rocks, logs, mulch and your deck. The eggs will look like bags of slime with white pellets in them. One snail can produce many offspring in a year since they can reproduce without a mate. Controlling the population is vital to your garden's success.
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Step 6
Purchase commercial snail bait at any garden store. Place the bait in commercial snail traps or create your own snail trap by using a plastic container flipped over with a notch cut in the rim. Place a rock on top so the bowl does not blow away.
Comments
Blackbear said
on 12/8/2007 The commercial pest control does work well I admit, however it always manages to find it's way back into our drinking water and this is why we are losing ourselves and loved ones to cancer. I would stick to safe remedies.