help snails fucking up my crop

what can i do to protct my plants from snails,i have 20 plants that have been planted about 2 weeks ago 15cm high and in a week i wana put a nother 20 out put the last time i whent to visit them leafs where damaged from snails and some bugs i found on the spot what can i do to ptevent this and i need some long term solution other than that ash around the plant method becouse it rains often where i live and it gets washed,so anybody whit good ideas please help.is there mayby some kind of pesticide from the store i can spray on the plant

There are some ways of getting rid of them but they are tough bastards. You can google: snail trap and see if you find anything you fancy or there is a product named Ferramol, and I bet there are more, that you can sprinkle around your plants so the snails eat that instead of your crop, after eating they get full, retreat and die within some time after. It is also said to be "rainproof" for up to six weeks and non toxic, repeat every two weeks. Reading, after my last visit, I gather you are guerrilla growing but to others with the same problem can coordinate this with your neighbours to spread the area of effect. Read up on where snails can be found/hibernate to get them at an early stage. Fruit Hill Farm --- The mailorder company for the environment friendly household, farm and garden
You can also take a jam jar and dig it down in the ground leaving some of the top above dirt level and pour some beer, yes beer, in there because snails are said to like beer or the smell.. Just keep in mind that you should change it every two days to keep the smell "fresh". I have not tried this method out for myself.

Good luck with the bastards
Dutchy

i always just sprinkle this in a ten foot radius.




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instead of buying a 20 dollar bag of "slug snail bait" you could just use rocksalt as a replacement, pour a line within a 3-4' radius of the stocks... this should work the same.

yeah, just pour a thick line of salt around your plant.
any snails/slugs that try to traverse it will die painfully.

snail bait is only 5 or 6 dollars. you don't want to make lines. snails climb right over it. you want to scatter it everywhere within a 10 foot radius. just sprinkle it lightly like you were scattering grass seed.

you could also take some of that metal wool stuff, you know the stuff you use for dishes and wrap it loosely around the base.

thats fuckin awesome, trying to eat the plant then they touch the salt and shrivel up and die. take that you slimy bastards

I put little clear dixie cups buried about 3'' and fill half way with beer(they crawl in and die)and I use some old speaker wire and strip the copper side and make little copper rings to put around the base of the plant,this has worked for me in the past and hope it helps you out.