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Do snails eat cranesbill?
Do snails eat cranesbills?
Snails don't eat cranesbill, unlike many other plants and especially salads intended for human consumption. Thus, cranesbill is one of the snail-resistant flowers, which is why it is very popular with gardeners.
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Why doesn't Cranesbill taste snails?
That cranesbill Snails don't like it and they don't nibble on it because the plant hairy leaves has. This fluff easily keeps snails away.
Where do you plant cranesbills to fight snails?
Particularly ** the garden area around lettuce beds** is a suitable place to plant cranesbills plant. Snails then not only despise the cranesbill itself, but also no longer have the opportunity to get into the salad bed.
Also in the proximity to other plants, where snails like to eat buds and young shoots in spring and thus destroy them, is a good place for the cranesbill. Such flowers are, for example:
- marigolds
- dahlias
Can cranesbill act as a ground cover against snails?
cranesbill can, if he has a large area than groundcover or underplanting for trees and hedges is planted, very good against snails works. Wherever the plant grows, snails no longer feel comfortable.
The larger the area on which cranesbill is cultivated, the more successfully snails can be repelled in the garden. The easy to nurturing Plant that quickly spreads into a dense carpet is far more effective as a snail repellant than a snail fence or chemical agents.
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Variety against snails
Not only the cranesbill is a plant that keeps snails out of the garden. If you want to create a variety of gardens in your garden, you can also fight against this with plants that contain substances that are poisonous to reptiles: suitable are, for example, aconite, lily of the valley and peonies. If children play in the garden, however, care should be taken with these plants - even small consumption is also poisonous for humans.