Nails and slugs in your garden can be a very frustrating problem. There are a number of tips and tricks that you can use to help eliminate slugs and snails from your garden. These tips and tricks will also allow you the benefit of helping the environment and are very budget friendly.

Snails and slugs can cause immense damage to your garden because they feed on material that is both decaying and. They gnaw large ragged holes that can easily and completely destroy young seedlings. Slugs and snails are especially brutal to cabbage, strawberries, and lettuce.

Everyone whose garden is infested with slugs and snails wonders how to go about eliminating these pests. There are some methods you can use to get rid of snails and slugs in your garden using items that you may already have in the house.

If the area in your garden that you need to protect from the slugs and snails is rather small, you could try using chalk. Slugs and snails will avoid crossing a thick line of chalk.

Coca-Cola poured into jar lids and set in and around your garden can also be an effective method for ridding your garden of unwanted snails and slugs. The sweetness of the Coca-Cola draws the slugs and snails to the lids. However, once they have entered the lids containing the soda, the acid in the Coca-Cola will kill them.

Beer is an item found in a large number of homes that can be used to get rid of slugs and snails found in your garden. Find a shallow item such as a Frisbee or a plant saucer and dig a shallow hole in your garden. Next, place the saucer inside, of the hole ensuring that you leave approximately 1/8 of an inch remaining above the ground. Pour the beer into the saucer, and then place a roof tile or similar object over the saucer to leave it in shade. The alcohol in the beer will break down the body tissue of the slugs and snails. The snails and slugs will be unable to crawl out of the hole. Every few days remove the beer in the hole and replace it with fresh beer.

An item that is very inexpensive that can be used in keeping your garden free from slugs and snails is sandpaper. Start by cutting collars out of the sandpaper that are about doughnut sized. Place these collars around each of your plants. Because slugs and snails do not like crawling over areas that are abrasive, this will deter them from going near your plants.

You can use salt in your garden to kill slugs and snails by osmosis. You do not even need to sprinkle the salt directly on the slugs and snails for this to work. Rather, sprinkle paths of salt around your garden or on sidewalks near the grass to be rid of snails and slugs.

You can try a homemade mixture made with vinegar and water to keep your garden clear of slugs and snails. Combine two parts distilled white vinegar and one part water in a squirt. Spray the snails and slugs with this mixture and they will often fall right off your plants. Typically the snails and slugs will die immediately, however some may still escape. Generally though, even the ones that get away do not opt to come back. There does not seem to be any side effects to your plants from the vinegar and water combination except that they are snail and slug free.

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