Eco way to kill snails

[posalie]

What's an eco way to kill snails and slugs? We inherited a beautiful garden, and it's just full of snails (and some slugs) at the moment. The previous owner had lots of slug pellets and similar, but we're worried these will also harm hedgehogs and other wildlife. Is there an eco way to kill them?

(I know some people prefer not to kill them at all, but I need to kill them I'm afraid.)

Wow, few psychos around 👀

I let them be 🤷‍♀️

Hedgehogs worked for us -steps out from our front door used to be crunchy.

Encourage hedgehogs with access holes in your fences and food (meat or cat bisc) in eve.
Look for local hedgehog rescue- they do release them in safe places.

We have a thriving hog population now and no mollusks.

Plant courgettes. They will ignore every other item in your garden to utterly destroy the courgette plants. I don't like courgettes. I plant them to protect everything else.

Go out at night, 9pm is fine - you don't need to go out in the middle of the night and pick them all up and put in a bucket with a lid

And then take them to another area in the morning - I used to take them to the woods in the morning and free them

There is no reason to kill them

I mean come on, that's just not ok (particularly snails, snails are really cute - and I even though I wouldn't pick up slugs with my bare hands it's fine with a gardening glove)

This is true. i read a newspaper report on it, after that we did an experiment by putting a dab of colour on shells of snails, sure enough they came back.

i didn’t put them too far (after all, it is their home!), just a few doors down and sure enough theyd all re appear.

🤣🤣

I put mine in the compost bin, I figure they won't want to leave the feast as long as I keep feeding it. God knows if it works!

That's interesting about marking them

I pick them up and walk them to the woods that are close to our house. Like... 10m. Then I tend to launch them in to the grass...
I wonder if they come back...

I got 25 in about 2 min one morning 🙄

Good idea about taking captured slugs to the woods. Hedgehogs 🦔 live there and they are in need of a boost in many places.

Beer traps. They go out happy and drunk

Snip them in half, I have read it all now 😡

They are not cute when you find the little fuckers nomming on the base of your best producer tomato plant!

I collect them in a bucket and dump them in our woods.

I used to have a massive bucket of wool pellets to protect the smallest and most delicate plants. They create a protective mat around the plant. Hopefully they haven't been discontinued now.

Everything else seems to cope ok. We do have a garden on the edge of fields/woods though and according to neighbours who own one field, several hedgehogs have been sighted.

Snip them in half?! . You absolute psychopaths!

I’m sleep deprived and thought that said bear traps. I thought fecking hell that’s an extreme way of offing some slugs

Go out in the dark and accidentally stand on them, I seem to have snail detecting feet

I try and collect them and take them to the woods but sometimes I put them in the garden waste bin to gorge themselves silly. Poor snails can’t believe people cut them in half!

Save all your eggshells and smash them up small- speed liberally around your tender plants. It works as a deterrent.

I tolerate them, though I might toss them over to another part of the garden.
We don't do killing.

You can get wool pellets which you put round seedlings etc. They expand with water and form a sort of itchy carpet that the slugs cannot plough their way through.

I like the idea of encouraging hedgehogs into the garden, but doesn't leaving food out for them also encourage rats? I bloody hate rats (was bitten by one while trying to rescue it from my cat, and ended up with a scary infection)

They don't like the compost bins/bags though... They climb out! Perhaps they only like the freshest produce! I inspect my hostas nightly as they are their favourites, and lob over the fence for the family of pigeons that live there.

Make your garden hog friendly crunch cruch. Encourage your neighbours to make hog holes in the fences so they can eat up everyones.
ironic isnt it? We used slug pellets cos we upset the garden balance, and any hog that ate one would die, now were trying to non toxic kill the slithery ones again
uurgh!
good luck. Plant hostas and sacrifice them to the snail overlords

Some vile people on this thread.

All life has value.