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- This is how Sage offers help in the fight against snails
- Aromatic barrier keeps snails on distance
- Clever mulching intensifies deterrence
- These plants preserve sage from snail-eating
- Tips & Tricks
This is how Sage offers help in the fight against snails
Sage is often to be found on the long list of effective control agents against gluttonous snails. In isolation, the herb does not ward off these pests; how sage proves to be a tip on the scales, you will learn here.
Aromatic barrier keeps snails on distance
The high content of essential oils qualifies sage to a popular spice and medicinal plant. What pleases the human connoisseur in taste and aroma, keeps slugs away. Plagued hobby gardeners use the up to 90 centimeters high shrubbery as a protective barrier for their useful and ornamental plants by planting sage as a bedding border.
Ideally, pull the young plants from the end of March by sowing on the windowsill. At a temperature of 18 to 22 degrees, germination starts within 7-21 days. The sage-younglings are planted from mid-May at a distance of 30 centimeters. Alternatively, sow the sage seeds directly into the bed as soon as the temperatures reach more than 10 degrees Celsius from the beginning of May.
Clever mulching intensifies deterrence
Due to its Mediterranean origin, sage prefers a calcareous, well-drained soil. A mulch layer of sharp grit is therefore very welcome to the herb shrub. In the same train, the sharp material acts as a barrier against insatiable snails. Alternatively, a mulch layer of coarse sawdust stops the nagging pests. The much-prized coffee grounds is unsuitable as a barrier under sage, because it lowers the pH.
These plants preserve sage from snail-eating
As an immediate plant neighbor, sage from snails cloaks preferred garden plants into a protective scented cloud. Thus, the Mediterranean herb plant acts as a botanical bodyguard when the slimy invasion arrives at night. In mixed culture with the following ornamentals and useful plants, sage in the sunny location fulfills this task with flying colors:
Tips & Tricks
Sage is not only deterrent against snails. It could be convincingly demonstrated that roses are less often attacked by aphids with a plantation of sage.
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