Garden Safe Slug & Snail Bait (HG-4536) (2 lb)

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If the listed scents are not keeping snails away from munching on your plants, then it might be time to set up a barrier. Snails have a difficult time crossing over copper, and therefore it makes an excellent barrier to keep the pests out. Rosemary can live for nearly 20 years and is easy to maintain, making it an excellent choice in keeping snails out of your garden. You want to make sure it gets plenty of sunlight to thrive. Lavender Is A Natural Snail Repellent Summer gardens are full of life: dinnerplate-sized dahlias are blooming, hummingbirds are all aflutter, and... snails leaving a slimy trail in their wake as they devour your perennials. The season brings snails, but also their antidote, snail bait — which is super toxic to dogs. Gardeners around the country use snail bait to keep plant-munching snails, slugs, and their ilk out of gardens. During the spring and summer months, I treat pups poisoned by it at least once a week. Keep reading to learn how to keep your dog safe, plus non-toxic alternatives to keep those slimy critters out of your garden. What is Snail Bait, Exactly? Diatomaceous Earth is a powder that’s completely natural and extremely useful when it comes to ridding your garden of certain pests like snails and slugs. They will get excited to indulge in new food, so they will crawl over to these peels to eat them. From there, you’ll see several different snails and slugs spending time on the peels. Grab either the snails and slugs themselves or peels and move them to a different area.

One of the most important factors to consider when looking for any type of insecticide or pesticide product is that the treatment may be harmful to kids, pets, and wildlife. However, this snail and slug killer uses iron phosphate-based pellets to attract and kill slugs and snails without posing a risk to children, adults, cats, dogs, and other animals.

Symptoms of Snail Bait Poisoning in Dogs

I liked that there were clear instructions on the container about the best times to use these pellets, as it will affect how well they work, and it isn’t really common knowledge. This usually leads to people sprinkling the pellets before a rainstorm and then complaining that they were ineffective.

Most snail bait contains the ingredient metaldehyde, which is toxic to dogs and cats. In Europe, metaldehyde is also used in camping lanterns and stoves. When you see the snails and slugs eat this cornmeal, then leave, it can make you think all you did was feed them a delicious meal. All hope is not lost, though. The slugs will eventually die from the ingredients inside of the cornmeal shortly after they have crawled away. Another thing they don’t like is sharp or overly rough surfaces. Common techniques include using coarse sand or broken egg shells, but there are plenty of other natural leaves and such that slugs don’t like to traverse. This person just used a piece of old skirting, but I would have made the surface a bit rougher, personally- Hyssop belongs to the mint family and is a helpful herb in keeping snails away. In addition to protecting your garden, hyssop is an antioxidant that has been used to treat specific ailments. Although they cost a little more than some of the other products featured here, Slugkil’s slug pellets did also impress me a little more, in some areas at least.To choose the right product or combination of products for you, learn a bit more about each of them, as well as their pros and cons.