How do you get rid of snails?

Question

I have tried all the baits on the market, and they are thriving!

Answer 1

Lots of answers, mostly salt or beer.  Yes, both kill slugs, but both also have drawbacks.

Salt works great, but unless the surrounding plants are beach roses, you are introducing salt into the soil, which most plants don't appreciate.  On the beer side, yes, it works, but it also attracts more snails to the general area.

Around our hostas, we use products specifically made for snails and slugs.  I believe one is called Bug-Geta.  Any good garden store will carry several products to choose from.  Seek products that are granular and tout that they last reasonably long, meaning that the granules don't melt away in the first rain storm.

However, if you really have tried "all the baits on the market", go ahead and try the beer -- but don't put it right next to the plants you are trying to protect.

Answer 2

I pick them up and throw them as far as i can.I threw one two weeks ago,He knocked my door today and said what did you do that for

Answer 3

SALT around your house, or your area where you are trying to reduce the amt entering.  

Answer 4

Try using salt. That usually works.

Answer 5

Crush up some cloves of garlic and spread it wherever the snail are usually found in your garden, this should work.

Answer 6

They love beer. Put some in a shallow bowl and they will go for the beer and drown.

Answer 7

find some little bowls. place them around ur garden. and fill them with beer. i know, i know, its sounds weird but it works. snails r attracted to beer and crawl up in the little bowl and drown. i used budlight beer by the way. hope i helped =]

Answer 8

put salt traps around the plants

Answer 9

salt them b*****s lol

Answer 10

You eat them suckers!!!

Answer 11

Salt can hurt the plants.

Dichotomous earth, like the sand for swimming pool filters acts like glass and cuts those slugs and snails to ribbons.

Answer 12

Salt

Answer 13

Mix together lemon juice or vinegar and water, but no more than a 50/50 mix and spray the infestation.  The acid works like salt but does not harm the plants.  If this is for non-food plants, you can add a contact poison.  Take a pouch of chewing tobacco and add it to a quart of boiling hot water.  Set it aside and in the morning, filter out the bits of tobacco with a coffee filter and add to the acid/water mix.  Tobacco is a contact poison for insects.  It is a member of the deadly nightshade family (solanaceae).

Answer 14

Beer is the answer!!

Snails love the stuff. What you need to do is leave small beer traps around your garden. Fill some small disposable metal pie tins with beer and leave them in the garden. Dig wells and place the tins in them so that the surface of beer is flush with the soil.

In the morning you may find snails in the tins however birds may have taken them.

Another tip is to follow the snail trails in your garden to find out where they enter your garden from. At these 'entry' points place more traps. Refil the beer traps as they run out.

Salt doesn't work. Snails avoid contact with it. If you pour salt over one however, that is a different issue.