Sprinkle your used coffee grounds and crushed egg shells on the ground around the plant that the snails are attacking. The crushed egg shells cut them and hurt them. I forgot what the coffee grounds do, but I would imagine that it sticks to their slimey bodies and isn’t pleasant. Others have put out shallow containers of beer for their cousins, the slugs. They crawl in, get drunk and can’t crawl out.
Hi Betty, it might sound silly but we have a few overturned flowerpots, with a stone placed under the rim to lift them up a bit, scattered around our garden. We check them every few days for snails. They like crawling inside. Grapefruit and orange halves work too. We also try watering our garden in the morning instead of the evening. Snails and slugs like moist conditions so by watering in the morning it gives the surface soil time to dry out by the evening when snails are most active.
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Sprinkle your used coffee grounds and crushed egg shells on the ground around the plant that the snails are attacking. The crushed egg shells cut them and hurt them. I forgot what the coffee grounds do, but I would imagine that it sticks to their slimey bodies and isn’t pleasant. Others have put out shallow containers of beer for their cousins, the slugs. They crawl in, get drunk and can’t crawl out.
Hi Betty, this Hometalker seems to use coffee grounds to help prevent snails from eating plants, check it out! https://www.hometalk.com/diy/grow/plants/use-your-old-coffee-grounds-in-the-garden-1667195
Use Your Old Coffee Grounds in the Garden.
I will surely let you guys know how it worked out.
Betty here--no more snails. Cross your fingers that the plant survives.
Betty here--I used both eggshells and coffee grounds, and no more snails. Cross your fingers that the plant survives!
you can also use stale beer for slugs.
Hi Betty, it might sound silly but we have a few overturned flowerpots, with a stone placed under the rim to lift them up a bit, scattered around our garden. We check them every few days for snails. They like crawling inside. Grapefruit and orange halves work too. We also try watering our garden in the morning instead of the evening. Snails and slugs like moist conditions so by watering in the morning it gives the surface soil time to dry out by the evening when snails are most active.