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 Snails Posted 28 Dec 11 7:39 AM
We ahve a problem with snails especially in our glass house. Can you please help? I believe we could make a snail trap - could you give instructions please.
Thanks, Basil
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Posted 28 Dec 11 10:36 PM
I pour beer on an ice cream container and plant it into the soil. Make sure you have half of the container cut in a way that the snails can enter and fall into the container but won't be able to come out as the container is deep. Additionally the snails will a bit drunk and unable to get out eventually drowning. Then I feed them to the birds :)
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Posted 29 Dec 11 12:50 PM
Thanks for that.So it will be drunk snails for the New Year!
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Posted 29 Dec 11 2:37 PM
Also try spraying liquid copper around the greenhouse, snails HATE copper....
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Posted 29 Dec 11 8:40 PM
Hi Basil,
I think the answers by others are excellent. If you are trying to protect a particular plant or group of plants, surrounding them with a ring of crushed eggshells. Snails hate grit.
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Posted 31 Dec 11 1:08 AM
Actually, not true, they will happily slide across the blade of a kitchen knife, and i have tried again and again with the eggshells, and it just doesnt work. Fresh (like fresh fresh) pine sawdust works though, the natural oils in it are apparently poisonous to the mollusks.
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Posted 3 Jan 12 6:52 PM
Get McGregor's Snail and Slug pellets from Mitre 10 Mega for $1.98 and scatter over the surface of the soil.
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Posted 4 Jan 12 8:16 PM
Hi Orchidmaniac,
I grind the eggshells up quite fine, and when the snails crawl across the eggshells stick to them - same thing is true for the sawdust. They seem to loathe anything really DRY that sticks to them.
I reckon the liquid copper is the best bet in an enclosed space though. I haven't tried it, but I know they hate copper. I used little offcuts of copper from my stained glasswork around hostas one year, and they won't go across it......it seems to shock them.
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Posted 5 Jan 12 11:01 PM
Sawdust definitly works, they cant stand getting close to it, they hate the natural oils in it if it is pine. Still not buying the eggshell theories though, i have tested it in so many ways, even in the way you use, and they still slide over them.
The bonus with the liquid copper, is you can spray it on your plants too, it helps as a preventative to fungal and bacterial infections. Just dont spray it on your orchids-they loath it as much as snails do.
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