Last updated on October 23rd, 2023 at 08:54 pm
To build a snail trap yourself, you do not need much. We’ll show you how to protect your plants from slug damage with simple tools.
Snail traps help the diligent gardener in the fight against feeding damage from snails. There are several ways to catch slugs alive:
Use natural points of attraction: Create places where snails hide during the day. Periodically collect the slugs and move them away from your garden. This is an inexpensive and very effective measure.
Live traps for snails: You can buy special traps in stores that snails can get into, but can’t get out of.
With the above methods, you avoid killing the snails with poison or death traps. Other homemade slug traps, such as beer traps, are just as effective and are therefore very popular with many gardeners. However, they are not recommended from an animal welfare perspective. For example, in a set up mug of beer, snails must cruelly drown.
In this article, we will show you exclusively ways to get rid of snails with natural means – preferably without torturing them.
- 1 Build your own snail trap: What you should know
- 2 A good snail trap should have these characteristics:
- 3 How to use your homemade slug trap
- 4 Build your own snail trap: Wood in the garden
- 5 Build your own snail trap from rhubarb leaves
- 6 Student flower as a snail trap
- 7 Studet flower as an attraction for snails
- 8 Author
Build your own snail trap: What you should know
You have probably noticed that there are points in the garden where you can find snails quite often:
- in the compost
- in decaying plant remains
- under pots or saucers
- under stones
- under tarpaulins or weed fleece
All these places have two things in common: the slugs are safe from predators and cannot dry out. You can take advantage of this. Search these places for snails – then you don’t have to build a snail trap yourself. If you can’t think of such a place or it’s too tedious for you, you can create artificial traps.
A good snail trap should have these characteristics:
- cool to warm
- absolutely dark
- no draught
This material is particularly suitable:
flat large stones
flower pots and planter boxes
To make the self-made snail trap even more effective, you can lay out weak attractants
leaves of dandelion or leaf lettuce
young leaves from the garden
Avoid strong attractants like beer or yeast. They can attract slugs from over 100 yards away. By doing so, you would usually even attract additional slugs from the surrounding area to your own garden.
How to use your homemade slug trap
Spread a few slug traps around your garden.
Check the slug traps in the morning and evening.
Collect the snails from the snail traps.
Take the snails to a safe place at least one kilometer away from your garden.
Build your own snail trap: Wood in the garden
Look for snails in the garden is very troublesome. During the day they hide from the sun and are hardly visible.
If you build good snail traps yourself, the snails will gather in these places. You can remove them and put them in a safe place where they can’t do any more damage to your garden.
Old rotten wood is very good for building a snail trap:
Scatter rotten wood around the garden. Choose shady or semi-shady places.
Put some attractants like carrot peels or lettuce leaves under the wood – ready is the self-made snail trap.
The snails will hide under the wood so they don’t dry out in the sun. You can collect them in the morning and in the evening.
Wood as a snail trap in the vegetable patch
Line the paths from your vegetable patch with wooden slats.
The snails will hide under the wooden boards and you will only have to collect them.
Build your own snail trap from rhubarb leaves
Rhubarb is a very powerful vegetable that takes up a lot of space in the garden because of its large leaves. Slugs feel very comfortable under the shady leaves, which is why the vegetable attracts many of them.
You can take advantage of this feature as a snail trap:
Harvest rhubarb from your garden as usual.
Cut off the large leaves with a small remnant from the rhubarb stem. One inch is all you need.
Lay out the rhubarb leaves as a homemade slug trap in a few shady spots in your garden.
The snails will crawl under the leaves and all you have to do is collect them.
Student flower as a snail trap
Some plants are special attractions for slugs, while other plants do not seem to be so tasty to them. To protect the beloved plants, the so-called sacrificial bed strategy is a good option. Here, you don’t have to build a slug trap yourself, just grow certain plants.
This is how the sacrificial bed strategy works
- Create a bed for the snails with plants they particularly like.
- The snails prefer their favorite plants and leave the other plants in peace.
- However, this strategy only works if the number of snails is manageable.
- In so-called slug years, the pests eat everything due to their large numbers. It is therefore very important that you reduce the slugs in your garden.
Studet flower as an attraction for snails
The leaves and colorful flowers of the student flower are very popular with snails. You can use this fact as a slug trap to protect your vegetable plants:
Frame your vegetable patch with a strip of marigolds to protect lettuce and other vegetables from slugs.
The slugs will stay with the marigolds because of their preference, and the vegetable bed behind them will be protected.
Collect the snails daily in the morning and evening.
"Kama ilivyoelezwa hapo juu, ""Kufanya mtego wa konokono mwenyewe, huhitaji mengi.""" Tutakuonyesha jinsi ya kulinda mimea yako kutokana na uharibifu wa slug kwa zana rahisi. Mtego wa konokono humsaidia mtunza-bustani mwenye bidii kupambana na uharibifu wa kulisha unaosababishwa na konokono. Kuna njia kadhaa za kukamata konokono hai: Tumia maeneo ya asili ya kuvutia: Kuunda maeneo ambapo konokono hujificha wakati wa mchana. Kwa ukawaida, chukua vipande hivyo na uondoe mbali na bustani yako. Huo ni hatua isiyo na gharama kubwa na yenye matokeo sana. Mtego wa kuishi kwa ajili ya konokono: Unaweza kununua mtego maalum katika maduka ambayo konokono wanaweza kupata ndani, lakini hawawezi kupata nje. Kwa kutumia mbinu zilizotajwa hapo juu, unaweza kuepuka kuwaua konokono kwa kutumia sumu au mitego ya kifo. Mtego mwingine wa kuvutia, kama vile mtego wa bia, ni wenye matokeo sawa na kwa hiyo unapendwa sana na wakulima wengi. Hata hivyo, hazipendekezi kutokana na mtazamo wa ustawi wa wanyama. Kwa mfano, katika kikombe cha bia kilichowekwa, konokono lazima waogope kikatili. Katika makala hii, tutakuonyesha tu njia za kuondoa konokono kwa njia za asili - ikiwezekana bila kuwatesa. "Kama ""mtego wa konokono"" - ni nini - ni nini - ni nini - ni nini - ni nini - ni nini - ni nini - ni nini - ni nini - ni nini - ni nini - ni nini - ni nini - ni nini - ni nini - ni nini - ni nini - ni nini - ni nini - ni nini - ni nini - ni nini - ni nini - ni nini - ni nini - ni nini - ni nini - ni nini - ni nini - ni nini - ni nini - ni nini - ni nini - ni nini - ni nini - ni nini - ni nini - ni nini - ni nini - ni nini - ni nini - ni nini - ni nini - ni nini - ni nini - ni nini - ni nini - ni nini - ni nini - ni nini - ni nini - ni nini - ni nini - ni nini - ni nini - ni nini - ni nini - ni nini." Unaweza kutumia fursa hiyo. Tafuta katika maeneo haya kwa ajili ya konokono <unk> kisha huna kujenga mtego konokono mwenyewe. Ikiwa huwezi kufikiria mahali kama hapo au ni chungu sana kwako, unaweza kutengeneza mitego ya bandia. Mtego mzuri wa konokono unapaswa kuwa na sifa hizi: baridi hadi joto, giza kabisa, hakuna draught, nyenzo hii inafaa sana: chungu za maua za mawe makubwa, na masanduku ya kupanda, ili kufanya mtego wa konokono uliofanywa na mtu mwenyewe uwe na ufanisi zaidi, unaweza kuweka majani dhaifu ya dandelion au majani ya lettuce, majani ya vijana kutoka bustani. Inaweza kuvutia punda kutoka umbali wa mita 100. Kwa kufanya hivyo, kwa kawaida ungevutia hata konokono zaidi kutoka eneo la karibu hadi bustani yako mwenyewe. Jinsi ya kutumia mtego wa kuvu unaotengenezwa nyumbani Kupanga mtego wa kuvu katika bustani yako. Chunguza mitego ya konokono asubuhi na jioni. Kukusanya konokono kutoka mitego konokono. Weka vitunguu mahali salama, angalau umbali wa kilomita moja kutoka kwenye bustani yako. Kujenga mtego wa konokono mwenyewe: Mti katika bustani Kutafuta konokono katika bustani ni shida sana. Wakati wa mchana wao hujificha kutoka kwa jua na hawaonekani sana. Ukijenga mitego mizuri ya konokono mwenyewe, konokono watakusanyika katika mahali hapa. Unaweza kuondoa yao na kuwaweka katika mahali salama ambapo hawawezi kufanya uharibifu zaidi kwa bustani yako. Mbao za zamani zilizooza zinafaa sana kwa ajili ya kujenga mtego wa konokono: Tupa mbao zilizooza kuzunguka bustani. Chagua mahali penye kivuli au penye kivuli kidogo. Weka baadhi ya attractants kama carrot peels au lettuce majani chini ya mbao <unk> tayari ni kujitegemea-kufanywa konokono mtego. Pomboo hujificha chini ya mbao ili wasikae kwenye jua. Unaweza kuwakusanya asubuhi na jioni. Mbao kama mtego wa konokono katika shamba la mboga Weka mistari ya njia kutoka shamba lako la mboga kwa mabamba ya mbao. Pomboo watajificha chini ya mbao na utakuwa tu kukusanya yao. Jenga mtego wa kuvutia kwa majani ya rhubarb, ambayo ni mboga yenye nguvu sana ambayo inachukua nafasi kubwa katika bustani kwa sababu ya majani yake makubwa. Vipepeo hujihisi vizuri sana chini ya majani yenye kivuli, ndiyo sababu mboga hiyo huvutia wengi wao. Unaweza kutumia faida ya jambo hilo kama mtego wa kuvutia konokono: Kuvuna ruubari katika bustani yako kama kawaida. Kata majani makubwa kwa kutumia sehemu ndogo ya shina la rhubarb. Inchi moja ndiyo yote unayohitaji. Weka majani ya rhubarb kama mtego wa kuvutia katika sehemu chache zenye kivuli katika bustani yako. Pomboo wataruka chini ya majani na unachohitaji kufanya ni kuwakusanya. Mimea fulani huvutia sana konokono, lakini mimea mingine haionekani kuwa yenye ladha nzuri. Ili kulinda mimea inayopendwa, mbinu inayoitwa kitanda cha dhabihu ni chaguo zuri. Hapa, huna kujenga slug mtego mwenyewe, tu kukua mimea fulani. Hivi ndivyo mbinu ya kitanda cha dhabihu inavyofanya kazi - Fanya kitanda kwa ajili ya konokono kwa kutumia mimea wanayopenda hasa. - Pomboo hupendelea mimea wanayopenda na huacha mimea mingine iwe kimya. - Hata hivyo, mbinu hii inafanya kazi tu kama idadi ya konokono ni kusimamiwa. - Katika miaka inayoitwa ya konokono, wadudu hula kila kitu kwa sababu ya idadi yao kubwa. Kwa hiyo ni muhimu sana kwamba upunguze wadudu katika bustani yako. Maua ya studet kama kivutio cha konokono Majani na maua yenye rangi ya maua ya mwanafunzi ni maarufu sana kwa konokono. Kwa mfano, unaweza kutumia mtego wa kuhifadhi mboga na kuhifadhi mimea yako ya mboga kwa kutumia mstari wa marigolds ili kuhifadhi mboga na mboga nyingine. Vipepeo hao watabaki pamoja na marigolds kwa sababu ya upendeleo wao, na kitanda cha mboga nyuma yao kitatunzwa. Kukusanya konokono kila siku asubuhi na jioni.