Create a Physical Barrier to Snails and Slugs

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With their raspy little tongues, snails and slugs can be just as damaging to your plants as many insects. Fortunately it’s easier to control them organically than it is to control most insects, since slugs and snails are limited to ground travel.

To keep them back very easily and effectively, you can lay a layer of wood ash, sawdust, or a mixture of both around the plants they’ve been attacking. Although it might not seem like much of a deterrent to us, at the size of the average slug, crawling over sawdust or ashes would be akin to a human crawling over broken glass. And not only does it stop these critters cold, it’ll enrich your soil as it decays.