Snails!!!! in my lawn!!! help

stopthespends

hi

in addition to my garden i obtained back fromt he council a piece of land at the side of my house which i have fenced in ( it was given to the council by previous occupants in 1975).

the grass is very wild and grows like billyo! as its not new grass i seem to have a great deal of snails in it!

i hate them theyve got to go! ive been looking for something to kill them with ( can only fing slug stuff) and it needs to be child friendly too.

i thought id ask here for a cure .... i think ive heard something about grapefruit but that my have been slugs too

thanks

Murtle

orange skins apparently work, although you'll have to pick them up and move them when they go in there.

Good luck - I've put copper stuff under my garden and then watched as the slugs and snails all moved home!!!

M

stopthespends

thanks but YAK...cudnt pick them up!!!!!

wots the cooper stuff???

Murtle

you only have to pick the orange skins up, apparently they go inside them....

the copper stuff is a matting I bought from Homebase, I guess any garden centre will sell it though. You lay it under a layer of soil or however you can, slugs and snails don't like copper so anything with copper really sends them packing. I guess you could use old copper piping, or copper wire or similar.

M

wigginsmum

Best thing is to get a pair of gloves and pick them up. Once you've done that you can mow the grass. They don't like sunlight so will hide during the day in shady places, so best time to get them is around 5am and/or just after it's rained. I can't bring myself to kill them so I chuck them over onto the railway embankment; I know they potentially come back but I'd feel worse if I killed them manually.

beer2006

Can I ask why you want to kill the snails?
If you have a veg garden I can understand, but otherwise

Cut the grass, or lay new lawn, basically get rid of their habitat and they will disperse by themselves.

Or get the kids to have snail races, great fun!

vivaladiva

I'm trying copper strips to deter snails, but over the weekend a friend suggested that if you have a secure garden you can get rehomeable hedgehogs from aminal rescue centres. I thought this was quite sweet!