Yesterday there was a lushly blooming daisy, this morning it was just a bare skeleton - that's how many garden owners feel when snails discover one of their favorite foods. Read this article to find out how you can protect your daisies from the next snail invasion.
How do I protect my daisies from snails?
Ensure that your daisies can develop well with a suitable location. Fine, crumbly soil keeps snails away. Hedgehogs and other beneficial insects feel at home in a natural garden and naturally decimate the number of snails.
Are daisies often attacked by snails?
Daisies arevery popular with snails, just like many other summer flowers. Infestations are correspondingly common. However, it is only the slugs that will be the downfall of your daisies.
Snails with shells, on the other hand, are not considered pests, they are quite harmless. The stately snails can even help you fight slugs because they eat their eggs.
How do I recognize a snail infestation?
Snail damage can be recognized bynibbled leaf edgesorholes in the leavesas well as by the inevitableslime traces of snailsDon't wait until there's hardly anything left of your daisies, but act immediately.
What can I do against snails on my daisies?
Ideally, plant flowers that snails don't like, such as chamomile or savory, near your daisies. Regular treatment of plants with lavender extract should also prevent snail infestation. It also helps to encourage beneficial insects such as hedgehogs or toads. At least they like to eat the little gray field snails.
Soil and plant care can also be seen as a preventative measure against snails. The snail eggs are quite frost-resistant. Therefore, you should create conditions that make egg laying difficult. This can be achieved through regular soil care, which ensures fine, crumbly soil and prevents cavities in which snails like to lay their eggs.
Can my daisy, which is infested with snails, still be saved?
If only a few leaves of your daisy are eaten, then the plant can be easily savedby protecting it from further eating attacks. Treatment with lavender extract is helpful, as is collecting snails in the evening. A heavily eaten daisy that has practically no leaves left can hardly be saved. You may still have a chance if you move the plant to a place where snails can't reach it, at least overnight, for example in the house or apartment.
Tip
Best protection: good care
No matter what diseases and/or pests you would like to protect your daisies (or any other plant in your garden) from, the best measure is good care in the (preferably) perfect location. If a plant feels good, then it also has strong defenses and strong roots in order to be able to take care of itself and regenerate itself well.
