Coffee against slugs

Hehe! But I mean that my grandpa always used coffee grounds as fertilizer. He always put all the coffee leftovers into the garden bed. But not as snail protection. For that, there was snail poison! Otherwise, a beer trap works. The snails are attracted to it and dive in wildly and drown. Actually, a peaceful death...

I have often heard that it works, but I have never tried it myself.

Regards ArminR

Salt helps, but that is a very unpleasant story. They like beer and would then drown in a beer glass. In the past, as children, we simply got 10 pfennigs for each snail. Then at some point we had more than 10 marks together. That was quite a funny story.

Use slug pellets or install a slug fence. Coffee grounds are good for fertilizing roses.;)

At our former apartment, strawberries have sprouted in the remains of a former sandbox and have multiplied wildly there. Although the sandbox boundary was gone and there were plenty of snails crawling around, they did not go over the sand to the strawberries. Maybe a sand barrier will help. It is definitely more environmentally friendly than snail bait.

Snails overwinter in the soil, on the plants. In spring, when the plants begin to sprout, the snails also crawl upwards.
A barrier, regardless of the type, requires collecting the unwanted little creatures during the first period.