Snails can become a plague in the garden and on terraces. Snails belong to the class of mollusks.
To distinguish between the so-called nudibranchs and snails, which drag a „cottage“ with it. These can then withdraw at any time. This also results in the saying: „pull back to the snail shell“.
Snails are not liked by all garden owners, they eat almost through the garden. Nobody likes it when they eat everything with hard-working vegetables, plants and flowers.
Now, good advice is expensive, how do you get these „roommates“ from the patio, yard and garden. But there is help, the so-called snail traps. You can build or buy them yourself.

Just to build or buy snails yourself?

You can fight the snails in different ways. Choose the best way for you, everyone is different.
You will wonder now, is it possible one Snail Trap to build yourself? But it’s easier than they think.
What tastes good for men is also good for many snails, BEER.
A beer trap must come from, it was the best experience made old. Field reports. It has three huge advantages, it costs almost nothing, it is not toxic and it is the most effective. Plastic cups and, of course, beer.
The beer attracts the snails and they fall into it. The next day you just have to dispose of them. The container of beer should be placed near the plants that are haunted by snails. The mug of beer should have something in it earthbe a dug so that the edge of the container is almost flush with the surface of the earth. When this first „deed“ is done, all you have to do is pour the beer.
Another very effectively self-built Snail Trap is that you lure the „pests“ with garden waste.
These are placed under black foil just above the surface of the earth. Waste such as cucumber peel, potato peel or lettuce leaves are suitable. Particularly effective are oysters and tomatoes. Greedy they are devoured by small and large snails and they need only be searched at this point.
It is also effective black bait boxes made of styrofoam find their use. You can also lay vegetable remains in it, or you can also use slug pellets. So only the nudibranchs die and not the snails (with house) fight. The snail grains do not harm the environment.

Bought snail traps
If you want to make it easy, then just buy one Snail Trap „off the shelf“. You do not have to be expensive either. Easy to order, they are available at Amazon at very reasonable prices. Four pieces are already very cheap to get. There is e.g. the trap „timtina“, a finished beer trap. They are in the pack to receive and as already mentioned very effective. Also interesting is the professional snail trap with an attractant. Non-toxic attractant is placed with a plastic container, easy to use. Even the largest with the dimensions 150 X 120 is optimal.
Also the Beckmann Snail Trap is ideal for controlling the snails.
The latest development in the market of snail control is a poison-free weapon with the sonorous name
Slug x Slug Trap. The trap has four access openings through which snails can penetrate. By a special arrangement of the „raceways“, the snails inevitably get into one of the three reservoirs, which are filled with beer. There is no escape. The very dense lid emits the strong aroma of the beer inside and attracts the „candidates“, they can not help but crawl inside the container. Another advantage is that this is great Snail Trap does not have to be buried in the ground and so remains portable. It can be used on beds in the garden or on terraces alike, and the material of this box is made of recycled polypropylene.

So dear hobby gardeners, do not despair. Snail Trap in different versions are quickly bought, if you do not opt ​​for „brand homemade“.