How to get rid of snails
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They are in the yard and garden as well as pill bugs.
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Go to the dollar store or any thrift store and buy shallow saucers, plastic if possible. Also buy some cheap beer and pour a bit into the saucers. Place the saucers near the plants in the garden for snails are attracted to the beer. They will climb in the saucer and drown in the beer. Dousing them with table salt is another option but who wants to get up at 4 or 5 in the morning to watch them come out so you can salt them? Beer works best as you don't have to stand guard over them.
Juanita J
on Mar 16, 2015
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Beer works best as Juanita J says. I would love to hear how to get rid of pill bugs, too.
Pat
on Mar 16, 2015
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use egg shell around the bottom of the plants break the egg shells up
Ann Parker
on Mar 16, 2015
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copper snails will not go on copper
Vic
on Mar 16, 2015
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I use the egg shell method...works quite well. I'm afraid my dog would get drunk on the beer!
Bonny McDaniel
on Mar 16, 2015
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Pill bugs, which are not bugs at all, but rather crustaceans, are scavengers and typically eat the debris in the garden. Think of them as nature's garbage disposals. However, if you do want to rid the garden of pill bugs, the easiest way is to clean the habitat in which they thrive: the moist debris in and around the plants.
Marilyn
on Mar 16, 2015
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Sink shallow tuna cans in the ground just deep enough for the top of the can to be even with the soil and fill with beer.
Brenda
on Mar 16, 2015
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Thank you everyone. I was trying to remember what cornmeal was used for, perhaps aphids? Thoughts?
Denice Notter
on Mar 17, 2015
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I've always heard that cornmeal was good for repelling ants.
Juanita J
on Mar 17, 2015
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