After the rain, get ready to attack the snails in the garden! – Plant protection

A careful hobby gardener should prevent snail invasion after rainy weather in a timely manner. We show eco-friendly tricks, traps, snail plants against them.

Snails in the garden then and today

Before we “shoot with a cannon,” we need to map out what led us to make these animals so difficult to live in the garden.

On the one hand, the Spanish homeless snails (naked snails obsession bare snails) came to Austria in the 1960s with food shipments, where they spread and multiplied due to the rainy summers, and soon appeared here as well.

On the other hand, experience shows that gardening has changed significantly in the last decade. Previously, it was customary to keep hens on farms and in residential gardens – and as the “last guest,” they were allowed to clean the garden in the fall: snail eggs and smaller snails were among their gourmet bites. you must, of course, furnish and nurture it.

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Enemies of the snail

  • A dry-laid wall (a stone wall that is not held together by concrete) is a real paradise for snail enemies such as to a lizard or fragile mousse.
  • The foliage left under the hedges and flowering shrubs provides a hiding place for the futrinka, which is a great snail destroyer.
  • Keep the cut branches at the edges of the garden – the hedgehog can hide there.
  • Consistent collection of unpleasant mucous animals in the evenings and mornings is not only good exercise but also the best prevention.

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Snail against homemade

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Snail Trap Secret Recipe

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Snail against ash and chemicals

  • If snails have been chewed up somewhere, most hobby gardeners will touch snail powder.
  • It is important to use only “environmentally friendly” snail powder! The agent should be sprayed on the surface and then watered. Do not wait to find the dead snails. They will retreat into the soil cracks and die there. the snails are very happy to eat the scattered granules.
  • You can also spray:
    • ground lime powder (20 g / m2)
    • iron powder (10 g / m2)
    • superphosphate
    • fahamut
  • Make sure that snail killer should not be placed near vegetables or fruits intended for consumption.

Plants that snails do not like

There are plants that are not or rarely chewed by snails:

Cickafark (Achillea) Lion’s mouth (Antirrhinum)
Stork’s nose (Geranium) Clover (Alchemilla)
Belfry (Aquilegia) Spurs (Tropaeolum)
Fern (Athyrium) Sage lily (Hemerocallis)
Stonecrop (Saxifraga) Helmet flower (Aconitum – toxic!)
Stone rose (Sempervivum) Tollbuga (Astilbe)
Flame flower (Phlox) Fiery (Heuchera)
Evening primrose (Oenothera) Venus frill (Adiantum)
Swamp freshman news (Caltha) Veronica (Veronica)
Nebula flower (Impatiens)