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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.
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.
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
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