After eating the sweet pulp of a watermelon or melon, a whole pile of hard rinds remains.
In most cases, this mass ends up in the trash.
However, some owners of country houses act differently.
Instead of throwing away watermelon or melon rinds, they carefully place the scraps in a plastic bag and store them.
Before going to the dacha, take the bag with all its contents with you.
In what case will the crusts come in handy?
They will come to the rescue if gastropods often appear in the beds. We are talking about snails and slugs.
These pests love to eat cabbage leaves, potato tubers and many other garden crops.
In addition, slugs can be carriers of diseases that are dangerous to plants.
If you don't fight gastropods, you may be left without a harvest.
The hard shell of members of the Cucurbitaceae family can act as bait for pests.
It is enough to spread the crusts between the rows. If you do this in the evening, then by the morning many snails and slugs will fall into the "trap".
The summer resident will only have to pick up all the baits with the pests on them, and then take them away from the garden.
