How to protect it from snails

You can do this against snails in your garden

In no case should you put a vessel with beer in your flowerbed. This is so tempting for the snails that they will have to walk long distances and will even come to you from the neighbour's garden, a picnic on the way is not excluded. This only increases the damage unnecessarily. Collecting the snails and eggs and taking preventative measures is actually more effective.

Put up snail fences as a preventive measure. You can buy these ready-made from specialist retailers or build them yourself. The fences should be dug at least 15 cm into the earth and protrude 10 cm from the ground. At the top the fence has a sharp angled edge that causes the snails to crash when they crawl up there.

With heavy infestation and a large garden also helps Slug pellets.(€ 7.43 at Amazon *) There are different varieties that are more or less poisonous. Inquire at specialist retailers and choose a variety that is safe for other animals. The active ingredient methiocarb is very toxic, even for humans, and is by no means recommended.

Snails don't like that at all

Snails do not like fine crumbly or rough soil. Regularly loosen the soil or sprinkle gravel or other rough material in beds that are particularly threatened by snails. Pour yours phlox not in the late evening, snails like it wet. You will tend to avoid predominantly dry or sunny places. These Locations are ideal for the flame flower.

The most important tips against snails:

• Collect snails and their eggs
• Snail fence
• possibly slug pellets
• do not water in the evening

Tips & Tricks

An effective but non-toxic protection against snails are so-called snail fences. They are harmless to other animals and usually do not cause injuries.