If snails besiege your boxwood, you don't have to stand idly by and watch the voracious activity. Read this guide to find out what really helps against snails in boxwood. This is how you effectively prevent snail infestation on box trees.
How can you combat and prevent snails in boxwood?
To effectively combat snails in boxwood, you can scatter dried coffee grounds, spray the leaves with strong coffee beans, collect snails or build a snail fence. Dryness and predators such as toads and hedgehogs help prevent it.
What helps against snails in boxwood?
Coffee and collecting work best against snails in the boxwood. Scatter dried coffee grounds under the boxwood with slug infestation. Spray the evergreen boxwood leaves with strong coffee. You can collect individual snails early in the morning with snail tongs. These products have also proven effective in combating snails in boxwood:
- Build a snail fence around the boxwood.
- Create wide moving barriers made of sawdust (50 cm), chippings (20 cm) or quicklime (30 cm) around the boxwood.
- Watering boxwood with nematodes (Phasmarhabditis hermaphrodita), which parasitize slugs.
How can I prevent snails in boxwood?
The best prevention against snails in boxwood areDroughtnessandPedestriansSlugs need a lot of moisture to survive. Furthermore, pests are at the top of the menu for many animals. You can prevent snails in boxwood with these remedies:
- Water boxwood only when the soil is noticeably dry (finger test); Avoid waterlogging.
- Do not mulch the boxwood hedge or mulch it thinly 2 cm so that the soil can dry quickly after rain or watering.
- Design your garden in a natural way to attract toads, hedgehogs and other predators.
- Keep ducks and chickens near the book tree.
Tip
Wasps in boxwood destroy boxwood moth
Wasps are welcome in the boxwood and for good reason. Only recently wasps discovered the fat boxwood moth caterpillars as a food source. At the beginning of the 21st century, the boxwood moth, which comes from East Asia, was introduced into Germany. Since then, the pest has left a picture of devastation on box trees. Because wasps have recently been eating the caterpillars in boxwood, there is new hope for successful pest control.