How do the snails get into the flower pot?
In most cases the snails or their eggs already in the purchased one Potting soil.
If you buy your flowers in large garden centers, snails can also be hidden in the plants. In the warm greenhouses, snails find optimal conditions to develop.
Snails are also attracted by the scent of their favorite local flowers.
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Favorite food of the snails
If you want to keep snails away from your flower pots, you should avoid these flowers:
- Dahlias
- Tagetes
- sunflowers
- Columbine
- Lady's mantle
- Marigold
- lupine
This is only a small selection of the preferred foods. In years with exceptionally high snail populations, almost nothing is safe from them. Only targeted control can help.
Fighting snails
The most common means of combating slugs is that Slug pellets.(€ 7.43 at Amazon *) Not only is it poisonous to snails, it can also be dangerous to pets. To be on the safe side, you should avoid the chemical agent and try home remedies.
- The simplest method is to collect the snails at dusk.
- Provide opportunities for the animals to hide. It's damp and cool under an upside-down flower pot. Here you always catch several animals while collecting.
- Snails love beer. Not only do they drown in beer traps, but also other useful animals. Please refrain from beer traps!
- Erect snail barriers, for example from copper tape.
- Protective coatings against snails; The flower pots are coated with the biological agent "Schnexagon". The composition of the agent prevents the snails from climbing up.
Prevention of snails
If you buy new flowers or new potting soil, you should carefully examine whether there are snails or snails. their eggs are in the ground. Potting soil can be made sterile by heating it in the oven. Most pests die at temperatures around 100 degrees.
It also makes sense to leave the snails' natural predators in the garden. Adult snails are eaten by hedgehogs, mice, toads, blackbirds and magpies. The eggs are on the menu of various beetles and centipedes.
