How to Get Rid of Slugs and Snails in Your Yard: Plant Any of These 5 Slug-Repelling Plants

06.12.2024 05:20

Are there a lot of gastropods on your property?

Then be prepared for a serious reduction in the yield of a large number of garden crops.

Slugs and snails will certainly “attack” cabbage, potatoes, peas and many other plants.

Want to save your harvest? Then join the fight against pests!

You can use ash, tobacco dust or ammonia. You can create "traps".

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But it is better to plant one of the repelling plants on the plot. In this case, you will get double benefit: you will drive away the mollusks and collect an additional harvest.

What plants repel slugs and snails

We are talking about representatives of flora, the smell of which is very unpleasant for gastropods:

  • lavender;
  • parsley;
  • thyme;
  • basil;
  • sage.

Slugs and snails hate the aromas of these plants so much that they quickly leave areas where the corresponding flora grows.

Now you know about a simple way to drive away dangerous pests from your garden and vegetable garden without using any preparations or traps.

Author: Kurchev Anton Deputy Editor-in-Chief