Use Salt to control garden pests

This just has to be one to the easiest ways to manage garden pests such as snails and slugs.

Salt is something you more than likely have in the kitchen and is a wonderful snail bait solution.

I never use commercially prepared snail bait as I am too concerned about pets, birds etc.

use salt to get rid of garden pests

Snails and slugs will NOT walk over salt - they hate the stuff

When I plant new seedlings and I know they are going to be attacked by slugs and snails I ALWAYS place salt on the paths that lead to the new bed.

I sprinkle the salt just on dark as they are more active then. This is a fantastic ecological solution and really fits in line with organic gardening advice no matter where you live.

snail salt trap

This is how I place the salt over the path at my home. It is thick and wide.

I am very generous with the amount of salt I use as I know it works well and I really want to protect the plants.

The salt will blow away quite a lot in a strong wind I found, in that case I just keep topping up the salt.

I find this such an easy home pest control idea as I always have some salt in the house.

Naturally this snail and slug trap won't work at all during wet weather. I use the beer trap on those occasions as another home pest control idea.

This way for more ideas on how to reduce garden pests

Garden Snails main page

Gardeners mend the past and rescue the future
Content (C) Robyn Parry 1999 - 2011