If your home garden is attacked by snails and slugs, pay attention to some tips from experienced farmers who managed to drive hordes of uninvited mollusks from their gardens.

Tip 1. Watering rules

It’s important to understand that slugs are attracted to wet areas of your garden. Therefore, the first step to not attracting them to your garden is to choose morning watering of plants instead of evening watering.

Frogs destroy slugs and snails, so you can place several buckets of water in shady places in the garden to attract them.

Tip 2. Weeding and weeding again!

Reduce the number of potentially attractive slug spots! To do this, regularly weed your site. After all, snails love to hide in the cool shade of weeds.

Also, in order not to create secluded and cozy corners for snails, carefully clean the garden and garden in early spring: rake old leaves, loosen the soil. After all, even large lumps can become a refuge for these slippery pests. Just do not forget to leave sufficient spaces between the plants so that there is good air circulation.

Tip 3. Come to us, aunt toad!

Bring slugs into the natural enemies of your garden!

If you have poultry in your household (chickens, ducks, geese), then attract birds to fight slugs - release them more often for a walk. If you do not have birds, you can make feeders for wild birds so that they often visit your garden.

Frog slugs are also destroyed, so you can place several buckets of water in the garden in shady places to attract croaking “fighters”. Thus, the problem with slugs will be largely resolved without additional effort.

For luring, you can put what snails especially like, for example, cabbage leaves or peel from citrus fruits.

Tip 4. A generous catch

If - the man who does not offend flies, not to mention the ruthless destruction of snails, you can catch the mollusks and take them away from your site. And collecting them in one place is quite simple! As already mentioned, snails like to hide in dark, moist places, so you can leave a damp board or log near the place where snails actively eat your crop.

Also, to lure snails, you can put what snails especially like: for example, cabbage leaves or peel from citrus fruits. After the destruction of your plants, these gluttonous creatures decide to rest and gather in the "hotel" you have proposed. In the morning you can collect the snail crop and proceed further at your discretion - execute or have mercy

Tip 5. Salt

Sprinkling slugs and snails with salt is an old and rather brutal way to destroy mollusks. Perhaps he is suitable for those who are so tired of the harm done by them that they seek to truly take revenge.

You must go to the garden or garden at night with a flashlight and a pack of salt. Use plants with characteristic leafy leaves as a guide. Find the slugs, brush off the leaves and sprinkle them with salt. It is important to understand the point: salt draws water out of snails, and they slowly die.

All you need to do is just leave a flat plate with beer, milk or stewed fruit in the garden or in the garden, where you have a problem with snails and slugs.

Tip 6. Snail bar

This method is more suitable for small areas and is considered quite mild in the fight against all-devouring slugs. All you need to do is just leave a flat plate with beer, milk or compote in the garden or in the garden, where there is a problem with slugs. Instead of a flat plate, we can take a disposable glass and bury it in the ground, leaving the edge 0.5-3 cm above the ground.

The next morning you will find a plate or glass of dead slugs (or a drunken hedgehog if you poured beer). You can also attract slugs with the following mixture: boil honey, yeast and a little water until the liquid becomes viscous.

Tip 7. Halves of grapefruit - an effective bait for snails

Cut the grapefruit in half. Eat the flesh, and use the “boats” from the peel as a bait for slugs, leaving them in plants that attract mollusks. According to experienced gardeners, in the morning you will find in the "boats" whole groups of slugs. You can serve this “exotic breakfast” to the birds. They will be grateful to you.

By the way, instead of grapefruit peel, you can use melon!

Tip 8. Plants that repel slugs

Slugs do not like pronounced aromas. Therefore, you can plant in the garden plants that repel these pests with their smell: lavender, sage, rosemary, garlic, onions, mint and others.