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How to control snails your Home Garden

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This snail comes as an uninvited guest in your home garden when the rainy season arrives or in humid conditions. These snails can live for three to five years and are more common during the rainy season. Even if you have one or two snails that will produce more than a hundred snails in two weeks we will see in this article how to control snails naturally.


Damage caused by snails


Snails are always clean without fear. If the problem comes up she will go into her nest and hide. The plant eats the leaves. In particular, they eat and damage the leaves of various crops such as bananas, cabbage, papaya, agave, spinach, legumes, groundnuts, lentils, aubergines, cucumbers, and ornamental flowers. The most important of these, the African large snail species, is the most damaging.


Precautionary measures


Water only in the morning or evening. Do not get too close to one plant or another.


Organic mulch other than straw mulch can be used if snails are abundant.


If there is any place for the snails to hide, take it away


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Picking by hand.


The easiest way is to kill the snails with gloves by hand. Some types of snails are allergic so wear hand gloves and take out snail  and can kill snails



Copper tape


Snails cannot get inside beyond the copper and it acts as an excellent deterrent. Snails attack more when the plants are smaller. Copper tape can be used liberally as there are only a certain amount of plants in the home garden. It can also be used well for potted plants.


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Snails do not attack plants if they are placed as a barrier around the plants. Easy to control at low cost.


repellent plants.


Plants like Garlic, Lawn Chamomile, chives can be planted around the home garden or sprayed on plants with solutions.


Snail Traps 



Once may trap snails and slugs beneath boards or flower pots that you position throughout the garden and landscape. Inverted melon rinds also make good traps. you can build wooden traps using 12- by 15-inch boards (or any easy-to-handle size) raised off the ground by 1-inch runners. The runners make it easy for the pests to crawl underneath.


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