Timing is vital in ridding your garden of slugs and snails. A precise treatment method that actively seeks out slugs and snails before they overrun a garden is most effective. During early spring days, home gardeners should bait shady, moist areas where slugs prefer to take shelter. This ensures that the slimy pests cannot get a head start on your plants. Baiting gardens for slugs and snails before they infest can literally be a matter of life and death for plants. Each spring, many gardeners underestimate the amount of damage slugs and snails can cause, in part due to a lack of knowledge about methods of controlling a slug and snail problem.
Gardeners who find their flowers, for example roses, destroyed each morning should take note that simply applying slug and snail pellets is a common and effective step toward growing beautiful, vibrant, pest-free flowers. Still, it is important to know that slugs and snails prefer younger plant parts, such as rose buds. While slugs normally hide during sunny days, snails can remain in the upper part of flowers. Therefore, protecting flowers early in their lifecycle before they can become a food source to snails is imperative to the life of a flower.
Applying Meta® baits across an area ensures that gardeners will greatly increase the efficacy of their slug-control measures. A steadily watered garden treated with soil and organic material, among other beneficial effects, also inadvertently creates the perfect environment for slugs to populate a garden. Because mulch piles can also become havens for slugs, home gardeners should apply border treatments around their garden perimeter, while also limiting excess amounts of leaves and sticks. Ivy and high grass should also be baited to keep slugs from burrowing toward the roots of plants, and eventually feasting on young flowers or vegetables.
Using Meta® baits increases the survival rate of flowers and vegetables because of the high efficacy rate of Meta® active ingredient in various weather conditions. Meta® baits specifically target snails and slugs, and do not harm beneficial organisms such as bees, earthworms and carabid beetles. Meta® active ingredient is rapidly degraded into Carbon Dioxide (“CO2”) and Water (“H20”) by microorganisms. Meta® baits can be found at home improvement and home and garden centers.
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