Organic Garden Pest Control For Snails and Slugs

One of the most natural organic garden pest control ideas you can use to help stop a snail is hair - human or animal hair. It even works in controlling slugs. Imagine that!

If you are 'hair challenged' fear not.

Ask your local hairdresser or pet groomer for supplies. I imagine they would be more than happy to see the fruits of their labor being used for such a worthy cause.

use human or animal hair to help eliminate snails and slugs

Snails and Slugs do not like walking over hair

I have used this natural method and can say it worked quite well for a while.

After grooming our giant schnauzer I placed his hair around some new lettuce plants. I had a reasonable amount of hair and it came out about 5 inches from the base of the plant so it was good coverage. Because there was a fair amount of hair it held together well and did not blow away.

However, I did find after rain the hair became flat and wet. The snails were then able to wander over the hair onto the plants so it was not that effective when I needed it most.

I do use this method still though and mix egg shells with the hair as the eggshells are not effected by rain. It is not a slug killer but certainly helps deter them.

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