How do you stop snails from eating your hostas?
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apply diatomaceous earth or corn meal in your gardens
Sink a plate or bowl level with the ground. Pour some beer in he bowl. The snails/slugs are attracted to the yeast. They drink their fill and die. In the mean time hand pick the ones on the plants.
mix 1 part ammonia and 10 parts water in a watering container, no stronger! Before the hosta come up or as soon as you see the tips, spray the earth with your mixture. It might take a couple of treatments, only a once per early spring, before you see no snails or slugs. Yahoo!
You can put crushed egg shells around the plants