I want to snuff snails surrounded by my garden? would road/rock salt do it?
would road/rock salt do it?
Oh, dear. Snails are living beings, and they be your mother in a previous lifetime. Additionally, if you did use saline on them, you would have a revolting mess to verbs up, and slime is almost impossible to remove.
I would suggest summit the snails in buckets and taking them without risk to a place of refuge, such as a public or discarded wetland or woodland, where they may roam free far from your garden.
I try to use a 'biological' control. I have created several small ponds within my garden, with cover, to attract frogs. They love snails and slugs!
Road rock brackish and those blue pellets will massacre snails but then you recurrently have a 'gooey' mess not here behind.
As does another contributer, I similar to to share my snails with my neighbours and I sometimes supply them flying lessons! (The snails, i.e..) Have you ever noticed that snails other come over the fence or wall from your neighbours' gardens and never the other mode around? A fair return, I say aloud!
Seriously, the frogs make an indisputable impact and they do not leave a mess. They will not breed uncontrolled when the food supply is limited. If they did, they would adjectives soon die of starvation. This natural stability has worked for me for lots years - and frogs are much cuter than snails.
One 'pond' I have is simply an ancient fish tank of more or less one foot in length. It is sunk into the soil, near a wire mesh over it to maintain away birds, etc. Another is a plastic shape from a garden centre. This is in the order of two feet across, sunk into a raise bed. They have marginal plants which provide cover. Mine hold pumps and lights but this is not essential for frogs and are more necessary for fish keeping. Frogs come across to like small habitat and water varying is then also immediate and easy. My frogs don't come across to mind stagnant water, though!
Try, also, encouraging hedgehogs, next to hedge cover, etc. They really gobble up snails and slugs!
Answers: I would not use saline in my garden, as this will affect your soil and plants negatively, potentially bloodshed some.
There are environmentally friendly snail and slug pellets that are really attractive to them, but damage nothing else. One honourable brand that I use is Growing Success Slug and Snail killer.
From their website 'It will merely kill slugs and snails, and will not impair children, pets, birds, animals or wildlife etc'
It's available from many garden nurseries, as ably as cheaper stores such as Wilkinsons, in the UK, costing lb3.49. I can vouch for its usefulness, the last couple of years, and this melt, damp spring. There's a contact to Wilkinson's info on it here:
http://www.wilkinsonplus.com/invt/022593...
Other than this, you can deter slugs and snails with sharp grit, or products made for this purpose, as economically as copper tape placed around plant tubs etc, as they will not cross it. (Again found surrounded by garden supplies outlets). 1 pot of the Growing success pellet will go a long track, and stop them in their tracks previously they lay numerous eggs and multiply rapidly - they're rainproof too, which could be a blessing basically now! Otherwise, collect them and clutch them far away, as they will return if just moved locally.
Hope this help. Good luck! Rob