Snails

I used Nemaslug which worked well but needs two applications each season and a bit pricey.

Also tried coffee grounds but with hindsight they were from my filters so probably not sharp enough.

Egg shells worked reasonably well but, as mentioned, you need lots of them.

I used two circles of the copper tape in the past again with some success.

Thanks for the eggshell and garlic remedies. We collect snails and relocate them on the wild area about 10 minutes away. I’m going to put dabs of nail varnish on the shells next collection to see if they do come back.
My DGS once did an experiment on snails, feeding them different things to see if their poo was a different colour!
I know it’s unkind, but I can’t abide the big white, orange and brown slugs we get and I’m afraid they get slung into the road at the end of the garden. I couldn’t throw them into my neighbours’ gardens -how antisocial would that be?

Monty always says the best way to avoid your plants being decimated by snails is to make them as healthy as possible by using the right compost, putting them in the right place and keeping them well fed and watered. I've really worked on this in the last few years and found even my most vulnerable plants and hostas are left untouched by snails and slugs until the end of the year when they start going over and weaken...then the blighters move in and have a bean feast.

I also do a nighttime walk (in nightie and wellies) around the garden with a torch and (WARNING: scenes of violence from the outset) I smash up any snails and chop slugs in half with my trowel.

Morning Shysal I am so pleased you shared the Garlic Infusion remedy. My hostas are flourishing again this year. Much kinder than using salt as suggested by some posters. Salt results in a long painful death for slugs and snails.

GO WILD not go will. We have field mice in the bit at the back too. They are SO cute. They climb up the grasses and you can see their little white bellies and they crunch away

www.hedgehogstreet.org/slug-pellets/

Encourage hedgehogs

We have let the back of our garden which borders to farmers field go will this year and we have planted a meadow and let all the grass become long around the trees and in doing this we have invited in a big fat hedgehog into the garden and he is chomping his way through all the slugs and snails and he is bloody lOVELY. Everyone was so upset about the football last night and there he was strutting his stuff and everyone went out to watch him (or her)

I am sure Aldom won't mind me sharing this with you. I had asked how she kept her Hostas free from slugs and snails. I have yet to try it.

Egg shells,it hurts them and stops them getting tp the plants,
Abit like us walking on broken glass.

I’ve got bark mulch round my sweet peas, that seems to have done the trick as they haven’t been eaten - but I just looked it up Bluebelle, have you tried this in your pots, as they will grow back if you can find a solution?
Answer: Young sweet peas are indeed a favourite of slugs and snails. ... Among these are placing scooped out half orange, grapefruit or melon skins, cut side down onto the soil to attract slugs and snails; check each day and empty them

These are my beautiful sweet peas don’t tell me to embrace the little buggers

The b*st*rds have completely stripped a petunia I planted not long ago, and a Solomon’s Seal, which they had never touched before during the 3 years since I planted it. ?

I have one of those snail trap things that you fill with beer, and it does work to some extent, but I’ve been forced to put slug pellets down, too.

If you’re a keen gardener though, only planting things slugs and snails don’t like severely limits your options, which is no fun at all. Manual barriers do work, so use pots they don’t like, put them on the patio as they aren’t keen to crawl over concrete, use copper bands, eggshells, organic slug pellets - but don’t stop growing what you love?

My lupins were eaten by snails, as were other plants. I noticed that Goldeneye was left alone so I've planted that. I was told they don't eat begonias or yellow plants so I've put them in. Time will tell!

I’ve been using nematodes for some years now. Last year I only had 5 slugs and this year not one
Obviously they don’t work for snails but at least I’ve defeated one enemy.

Daisymae i was just thinking the same thing. Anyone know which plants they dont like? I Have grown Antirrhums this year and i noticed they dont touch those so they may well be my plant for the future. French marigolds get eaten alive. Dhalias are being swamped with blackfly even though i have bought a well known brand of bug killer. But so far my Lupins haven't been visited by greenfly this year. Makes you wonder how the beautiful gardens open to the public manage to have such wonderful displays with no obvious signs of slug, snail and other instect damage.

According to Gardner's world this week they are part of the eco system and should be embraced. Reading some of the responses here ?. I would never use pellets. I think that the answer is to use plants that the don't like.

I haven’t seen a hedgehog locally in over 20 years. I made a small wildlife pond in the hope the frogs would keep the slug/snail population under control but it doesn’t seem to be working.
I cut up the slugs, stand on the snails, use slug pellets or collect them in a bucket of salt water. I have used eggshells, gravel, bark, copper, pine needles and wool.
While the various methods help, nothing rids you of the problem in my experience.
Just concentrate on growing plants they don’t like.

Definitely salt

Mine go in the pond for a last swim

Snails are homing , throw them over a wall and they will come back.
I cut them in half with scissors or step on them. I also use slug pellets (and nematodes for slugs, unfortunately not effective against snails).

I've discovered that snails like living in clipped box bushes (but don't feed on the leaves) so I scatter pellets on those too and brush them with my hand so they fall out of sight.

I’ve found slugs and snails halfway up a rough cast wall!

Eat them, they are very nice stir fried in garlic butter.

MissChateline

Do a snail hunt several times a day and throw them as far as possible over your fence into your neighbours veg patch and hope that they prefer it there !

I hope no one throws them into my veg patch! ?
None of our front gardens on the cup de sac seem to suffer with snails........discovered why the other night when I came home late from a volunteering event........at least six hedgehogs roaming the gardens and paths! It was a joy to see, just have to be mindful that we don't run over them.

I've recently tried using Strulch and so far it seems to help. I use Nemaslug, but the snails aren't affected by this . I also use copper tape, so maybe a combination of strategies helps?