How do I get rid of snails in a raised bed?
Last year, snails ate everything in the raised bed. Is there anything I can do to prevent the same thing from happening this year?
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Ah, the wonderful world of snails…
Yeah, you can do something, no, it's not easy.
I also have high beds, and it happens again and again that they eat something away.
I did the following:
Metal boundary around the high bed, but you have to make sure that all access paths are really locked, which come through the smallest holes. I took such a corrugated lawn edge band, 25 cm wide, that now stands about 10 cm above the edge of the high beet and is 10 cm in the ground.
Copper band around the high bed outside. Yeah, I know that's almost an esoteric, with me it got something, I'll figure it out. Ebay is significantly cheaper than in the construction market, big roles.
Any access made from above. Next plants cut away. Snails use every access, every bridge in the bed, and I've almost dreamed of small cameo screws that fall from above into my bed.
In the evening in the dusk, snails collected, in the whole garden.
In front of the plant, if I find nests, you can find eggs more often in small cavities in the bed.
And once in the early days when the plants are still so extremely susceptible: snail grains of Neudorff, which is harmless to all other animals.
Thank you. Do I have to take off upper ground?
Why?
All right…
And thanks for the flowers – or the crown ;o)
Okay, then Snail King:)
No, that's just what was in it – it was me
Because the profile picture shows a woman
How do you get in?
But thanks
Thank you, my snail queen!
OK.
If I hadn't done it now…
Can you search something?
If they may make sense – usually it is enough to whisk, the birds are looking through this…
…and if thanks (future) immigrant barrier nothing arrives, eat only 1x like that…
Because maybe we're laying in the earth. Or do they not overwinter?
Grab a cup to the edge and fill with beer.
Now is the perfect time to collect the parents generation of snails. all the snails you're collecting can't make any more children.
At the same time, you can provide the edge of the high bed with a special snail fence that makes new immigration impossible.
For this, there are certain means that only the snails attack but do not radiate over the food.
Possible early in the year to go hunting Every April chick fewer are hundreds a year
https://www.gartenjournal.net
There are defensive fences that can be put into the earth, they don't get over it
Wait for the next rainy day… then you collect the snails and drown them in beer. Grab the snail beer soup.