Comments on: Organic Snail and Slug Control: How to Kill Snails and Slugs Naturally

By: Allison

Allison — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 17:31:09 +0000

Rachel,
What kind of fruit juice?

By: Genevieve

Genevieve — Thu, 20 May 2010 03:03:03 +0000

Oh Rachel, that’s a great cautionary tale – I mean, not so great on the plants but good for us to remember. That’s a great tip about fruit juice, too. Thanks!

By: rachel

rachel — Thu, 20 May 2010 02:18:13 +0000

I used salt in my first garden, years ago, with enthusiasm. It killed the snails and poisoned the soil for the plants, especially the corn — I got tiny stunted two foot tall corn plants that still tried to make ears, little round ones like the bellies of starving children. It was especially embarrassing because this was in a community garden and other people had corn six feet tall, ten feet tall…yeesh. Learned a lesson there!

Instead of beer, I use cans buried 3/4 of the way in my garden and half-filled with a mixture of fruit juice and water. I use these to get beetles in the strawberry beds and it works great for that, and actually gets a lot of snails too.

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By: janice

janice — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 23:05:29 +0000

coffee grounds around your plants kills the snails

By: peter

peter — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:57:17 +0000

Great post! Here’s a humorous little post on some rather drastic ways of slug control, some of which are similar to your suggestions Happy gardening!

By: Genevieve

Genevieve — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:02:41 +0000

Never heard of it, IB, but I’m guessing snails and slugs aren’t producing new eggs while dying of iron poisoning. They aren’t eating, either, after they eat the iron phosphate bait.

It is certainly neat that you can spray it directly on very susceptible plants, but I wouldn’t rely on it as the only control, because dousing plants and soil with it sounds expensive and time-consuming. I’d just use that on new seedlings or very tasty plants and use iron phosphate elsewhere.

I’m annoyed with their website for claiming that other organic snail bait harms earthworms and is unsafe for pets and kids. That’s patently untrue.

If you want to try it, I’d call the company and see where they suggest buying it. Good luck!

By: IB Smiley

IB Smiley — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 14:46:45 +0000

I was looking for an nature friendly product to kill slugs and snails (kind of an oxymoron huh?). Most of the organic products I’ve tried seem marginal at best. I want an organic product. I found this one product doing a web search. It popped up at http://www.snail-n-slugaway.com. I see their product advertised on their website, but I don’t see a way to purchase it from a retailer or on-line. It looks pretty promising, but I can’t seem to find someone who actually is selling it or knows much about it. It looks like it could be an organic way to effectively deal with snails and slugs; it says its and an ovicide too. That is quite appealing to me because snails are laying 20 to 100 eggs a day so with a bait they come to and then don’t dye for a few days, thus leaving a legacy of 60 to 300 follow up snails after they eat the bait. So my question is, do you know anything about this product or has anyone tried it. I would really like to test it out, but I can’t find any place to buy it. Any help you could give me with this would be very much appreciated. Thanks.

By: Liquid Seaweed Fertilizer

Liquid Seaweed Fertilizer — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:58:25 +0000

Some fantastic ideas there. I never realised that chickens would eat snails and slugs. I think could be a good option, especially if I can get some fresh eggs out of it. I hate using slug pellets because I always fear for the birds that eat the slugs so normally use some beer although I don’t find that it works that well . Maybe I should change the type of beer!!

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