Drive away snails: ten plants they don't like at all

Created: 06/30/2022, 09:12

By: Ines Alms

The slimy pests give snail-resistant, defensive plants a wide berth.

A good reason to plant them in your own garden.

There will probably never be a one-size-fits-all remedy for snails, but there are at least things you can do in your own garden to put snails in a bad mood.

These include food deprivation and plants, which they find downright repulsive.

Both are possible with certain slug-resistant plants.

Drive away snails: ten plants they don't like at all

Dried as a mulch or as a decoction, tansy acts as a deterrent to snails.

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A trail of slime is often a foreboding of evil before you discover the sad, eaten remains of your vegetables or your favorite flower that just bloomed so beautifully.

Before your gardener's heart breaks at such a sight, you should arm yourself with a few plants that the pests really don't want to see.

Whether it's spines, stinging hairs or ingredients such as aromas and bitter tannins - plants have found numerous methods to defend themselves against their potential predators.

Apparently herbs do this best, from

, there is hardly anything that the slimy people don't give a wide berth to.

An exception are basil, dill and young parsley, which you should protect from the hungry animals.

However, most other herbs with their

ensure that their smell has such a deterrent effect on snails that they literally drive the pests out of the bed.

It would therefore be worth trying to put a few herbs between vegetables and flowers that are worth protecting.

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Drive away snails: from meadowsweet to rhubarb liquid manure

If the snails don't find any food at all, you also have no reason to stay in the bed.

These ten plants leave the snails alone because they don't like them:

• Meadowsweet (Filipendula ulmaria)

• Snapdragon (Antirrhinum spec.)

• Peony (Paeonia)

• Sweet thistle (Eryngium planum)

• Foxglove (Digitalis purpurea)

• Alyssum (Lobularia maritima)

• Sweet William (Dianthus barbatus)

• Marigolds (Calendula officinalis)

• Marguerites (Leucanthemum)

• Balloon Flower (Platycodon grandiflorus)

Incidentally, there are also salads that the snails have no appetite for, such as

or

.

If you want to go one step further and actively fight the snails, you can make a decoction or stinking manure from various plants and spray or water the affected or endangered plants with it.

Ivy, elderberry, rhubarb or yarrow are suitable for this.

The effect of copper tape to ward off snails on flower pots or around raised beds, on the other hand, is controversial.