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Snails
Escargot

Description:

Snails are insidious pests they are capable of destroying plants rapidly.

Treatment:

Environmentally freindly:

• Pick Snails off manually and crush them.

• Pour salt over them but be careful the salt may damage the plant.

• Sink a bowl or container into the ground (level with the surface of the soil) and fill it up in the evening, when snails are active.  The snails are attracted to the beer in which they drown.

Chemical:

• Kompel Snail Pellets sprinkled over the infested area, re-sprinkle the pellets when the others start dissolving.

• Kompel Liquid snail poison, 60ml/10l water, repeated every seven days.