How do you kill a snail without damaging the plants and using harmful materials like knives?

How do you kill a snail without damaging the plants and using harmful materials like knives and plants receive some advantages?


salt can damage plant, but it can kill snail, how do i kill snail and the plant receive something good for it?|||Drop them in a basket full of lettuce for few days, this cleans out there digestive tract. Drop them in a pot of boiling water until they quit screaming (I's actually just air escaping there shell, a similar thing can happen with lobster and other shell fish) about a minute.Let cool and remove the little beast from his shell. Make a paste of butter,minced garlic and basil. Put a little paste in the shell, Put the little critter back in his remodeled home and seal him in with a dollop of paste. Scrunch up some tin foil in a cake pan and push the shells upright into the foil. Put the little devils under the broiler until the butter bubbles. Serve with a plate of different crackers and napkins. Save the shells and run them through the dishwasher, you can recycle them again with drunk slugs. I wonder what leeches would be like? RScott|||If you want to keep snails away from your tender plants without using poison...COPPER! They cannot slime over it - nor can slugs. There are expensive (kinda) thin copper strips you can staple on your veg beds or you can use old 1/2" copper pipes edging your garden areas that are on the ground. We also use Sluggo a natural product that disrupts their breeding cycle without poison in some areas where the other strategies don't work.





Never use poisons where you have small animals or you may be eating the stuff you grow.|||If you go to a garden center or hardware store they have products there that will kill the snails and slugs they usually call it "Snail and Slug bait" but their is a different name for it that is two words the first word I can't pronounce or spell but I know that it begins with the letter D. and the second word is Dirt and it does look like cat litter and it works GREAT!!|||Is it one snail or a lot of snails? If you have a lot of snails and they're scattered all over your plants, you can buy snail bait at the garden store. It comes in little pellets and it really works. You just scatter it on the ground. If you have dogs or cats, be sure to check the label. They kind of look like animal food (pellets). Don't take any chances with your pets, though.|||SlugsAway Electronic Slug and Snail Fence


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Laugh if you will but they make small fences for them. Open the link and check it out|||Gather up the snails and take them for a walk - take them to a wooded area or park in your area. that way you aren't killing anything and are ridding yourself of the problem.|||The active ingredient in Sluggo is iron phosphate. It is not toxic to mammals and is approved for Certified Organic Farms. Copper bands on citrus trunks works good, too.|||http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0oGkipECHxJlU鈥?/a>


This guy has plenty of garden tricks to help you.|||Pluck or flick the snail off of the plant, and then stomp on the snail.


It's pretty simple.|||salt or they sell powders at garden stores line your planter box with salt they wont cross it :) its like fire|||Put a liddo but of salt on it(:|||I know beer attracts slugs - and then they drown in it. Maybe it will work for snails as well? Try it and see! Just place a small bowl of beer in your garden and see what happens|||no killing snails!!!|||step on it