Garden snails

Bertie1974 · 04-06-2007, 10:42 PM

Does anyone know of a way to get rid of garden snails without killing them? My garden has been infested and soon there will be nothing green left! They're even munching their way through my beautiful magnolia trees

I do think that snails are quite cute so I would prefer not to kill them. This evening I got my other half to take about 100 snails over to the local woods to rehome them.. Has anyone else got any ideas?

05-06-2007, 01:42 PM

my granddad uses salt but i think that kills them. unless you gently pick em off?

tortoiseguy · 05-06-2007, 02:07 PM

Bowls of beer work, it kills them but they die happy!

Treacle · 05-06-2007, 02:13 PM

I don't know any way of deterring them, but I would be interested if anyone does because I also spend ages picking them off my plants and re-homing them! Slugs, however, aren't so lucky and get salted!

Treacle x

tamsintd · 05-06-2007, 02:13 PM

i don't know a way to get rid of them, but you can get most of them in one place to collect them by putting down some orange peel, our snails love it, & i was told that you should also try coconut. once they have congregated at the food, you can get rid of them.....good luck with evicting them!

05-06-2007, 04:26 PM

Slugs are eating my hosta

loopylucy · 05-06-2007, 05:33 PM

put them in the rehoming section

quite a lot of people like snails on here

04-06-2007, 10:42 PM	#1
Bertie1974 Member Hatchling Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Willenhall. West Midlands Posts: 505	Garden snails Does anyone know of a way to get rid of garden snails without killing them? My garden has been infested and soon there will be nothing green left! They're even munching their way through my beautiful magnolia trees I do think that snails are quite cute so I would prefer not to kill them. This evening I got my other half to take about 100 snails over to the local woods to rehome them.. Has anyone else got any ideas? __________________ 2 Cockatiels (Bertie and Billie) 1 Pigeon (Benji) 0.0.2 Ibera (Doug and Pebbles)

05-06-2007, 02:13 PM	#5
tamsintd Member Hatched Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Hampshire Posts: 446	i don't know a way to get rid of them, but you can get most of them in one place to collect them by putting down some orange peel, our snails love it, & i was told that you should also try coconut. once they have congregated at the food, you can get rid of them.....good luck with evicting them! __________________ Tammy x

05-06-2007, 05:33 PM	#7
loopylucy Member Hatched Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 329	put them in the rehoming section quite a lot of people like snails on here __________________ 1.2.0 Hermanns

05-06-2007, 01:42 PM	#2
Pudge Guest Posts: n/a	my granddad uses salt but i think that kills them. unless you gently pick em off?

05-06-2007, 02:07 PM	#3
tortoiseguy Senior Member Sub Adult Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Manchester Posts: 1,020	Bowls of beer work, it kills them but they die happy!

05-06-2007, 02:13 PM	#4
Treacle Member Egg Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Amasingstoke, Hampshire Posts: 72	I don't know any way of deterring them, but I would be interested if anyone does because I also spend ages picking them off my plants and re-homing them! Slugs, however, aren't so lucky and get salted! Treacle x

05-06-2007, 04:26 PM	#6
Glitter Guest Posts: n/a	Slugs are eating my hosta

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