Snails on the scabious

Do snails like scabious?

The scabious is not one of the snail-resistant summer flowers. But she is too no of those perennials that go to favorite food belongs to the mollusks.

Is the scabiosis already weakened in rainy years by the weather or the onset of root rot, it is slugs not spurned. This is because the natural defenses from essential oils and tannins in the leaves decrease. In addition, the animals multiply en masse in wet weather and can then cause great damage.

How can I protect the scabious from snails?

If the scabious is eaten by the snails, you should combine several methods of snail defense:

• Since drought is the worst enemy of pests, keep the soil open and free of weeds.
• Not mulch.
• Spread a layer of sawdust mixed with lime around the beds. Slugs avoid this barrier because the lime would etch their soles. Must when it rains this snail defense be renewed regularly.
• Snail fences, which the reptiles cannot overcome, are very helpful.

How do I fight snails on scabious?

It's not a particularly pleasant job, but this Collecting the slugs is the well most effective method.

• Lay out stones, boards or large leaves in the bed. The mollusks hide there in the morning hours.
• Collect all animals.

What to do with the snails collected by scabious?

Environmentalists and experts from the Federal Association of German Garden Friends recommend the mollusks quickly to kill. If you boldly cut through the pests with secateurs or pour boiling water over them, the animals will not suffer unnecessarily.

Please do not simply throw the snails in the organic waste bin. Here they slowly suffocate and die in agony. Even the ones you don't love slugsshould one spare such a death.

Since they can upset the ecosystem, avoid releasing the collected reptiles in nature.