Combat slugs in an environmentally friendly way
Many pesticides are harmful to the environment and to other animals in the garden. We recommend choosing an environmentally friendly method, so that other animals can continue to enjoy your garden with peace of mind.
Place a slug trap in the garden
Our slug trap is kind to the environment. Place the snail trap in a place where the snails cause the most damage. Fill the trap with beer, these animals love yeast. They will crawl into the trap, get ‘drunk’ and are unable to get out. In the morning, you can easily remove the snails.
Other ways to chase away snails
A strip of copper tape around a flower prevents slugs and snails from crawling up the flower, as they hate copper. This way, you make sure that the slug stays away from a specific plant or vegetable. They do not like rough materials either, materials such as coffee grounds, cocoa beans and shell sand cause the critters to dry out and cannot move around properly. Sprinkle a layer of these materials just before your soil where the plants are growing in.
More tips for controlling snails
- Place pieces of apple under an old roof tile in the garden. Slugs and snails are attracted to them. In the morning you can easily remove the slugs. The fruit also attracts birds to the garden.
- Hoe the garden regularly, this dries out the top layer of soil. This makes it harder for the snail to move around.
- Snails prefer to emerge at dawn after a good rain. Therefore, water your (vegetable) garden preferably in the morning so that it has time to dry up in the afternoon. And there’s no twilight waterparty for slugs to go to.
- Barricade and surround your crops and young plants with eggshells, this structure is not very pleasant for a slug’s body.
- Attract other animals to the garden. Animals such as birds, hedgehogs and toads eat snails. This is a natural way to prevent snails in your garden.
