Article: Direct most of the water to open areas rather than those containing plants you’re worried about protecting. The smell of moist soil will help attract snails to your garden, where you’ll have traps waiting for them. You want your trap to be deep enough to make it tough for snails to escape once they’re inside, but not so large they’re difficult to put in place. Bowls and saucers with steep sides make good bases, as do the kinds of plastic containers that products like yogurt and ice cream are sold in.  For example, you could use a tuna or catfood can, both of which are great options for traps. If you’re interested in a heavier-duty solution, you can buy lidded snail traps from most gardening centers for as little as $10. Use a hand trowel to make a depression in the soil deep enough to anchor your makeshift trap. That way, when a snail comes along, it will tumble right into the container rather than being forced to climb the side.  Shallow containers will obviously be easier to bury, and won’t be as disturbing to the soil in your garden. Avoid sinking the edging of the container flush with the soil. This can cause other beneficial insects like beetles and lacewings to fall in by accident. Pour the beer to just below the top of the trap. Then, leave the trap to sit in one of the central areas of your garden overnight. Snails that come close to get a taste will find themselves swimming in the liquid with no way out.  Any type of beer will do the trick, but cheaper varieties will probably be best, since you’ll just be throwing it away when you’re done. You can also use a mixture of yeast and honey if you don’t happen to have any beer on hand. It’s actually the yeast that snails find so alluring, rather than anything in the beer itself. Each trap will only be effective for luring snails from a distance of about 3 feet (0.91 m). It may therefore be necessary to use more than one if you’re combating an extensive infestation, or your garden is spread out and covers a lot of ground. Be sure to empty and refill your trap every day or every few days until you’ve got the problem under control. After polishing off a grapefruit with your breakfast, leave half of the hollowed-out fruit in an open area near your prized plants. Snails love citrus, and will clamor inside to get a taste. Once enough snails have collected inside the rinds, you can then simply remove them from you garden and dispose of them. This easy trapping method will also work with other types of citrus, but grapefruits tend to work best because of their large size.
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Hose down your garden in the afternoon or evening. Select a shallow container to serve as a trap. Bury the container so that the lip sits just about soil level. Fill the container with beer. Place several individual traps throughout your garden to trap them. Deposit grapefruit rinds throughout your garden.
Article: The boxes will be the molds that you’ll use to create the planters. Find 1 large box and a slightly smaller box. The smaller box should be able to fit inside of the larger box. The space in between the 2 boxes will determine the thickness of your concrete planters.  The boxes can be made of cardboard or wood. The smaller box should be at least 2 inches (5.1 cm) smaller than the big box on each side. The smaller box should be at least 8 inches (20 cm) deep for larger plants and 3–4 inches (7.6–10.2 cm) deep for smaller plants. Get sturdy boxes so that the mold doesn’t break when you fill it with concrete. If you want a concrete planter that’s a different shape than a rectangle or square, you can purchase plastic containers of any shape to serve as your molds. Find 2 different sized plastic containers online or at a department store.  The smaller container should be at least 2 inches (5.1 cm) smaller than the larger container around each side. The smaller container should be at least 8 inches (20 cm) deep for larger plants and 3–4 inches (7.6–10.2 cm) deep for smaller plants. For instance, you can get 2 pots or 2 plastic bowls. Stretch the trash bag over the smaller container so that it's taut against the sides. The trash bag should be tight against the inside of the container as well. Tape the trash bag to the box or container with duct tape. The plastic bag will prevent the concrete from sticking to the small container and will make it easier to remove the mold. Use a ruler to measure 2 inches (5.1 cm) from the base on the inside of the large container. Make a horizontal line with a pen or marker. This will help you determine how much concrete you should initially pour into the mold.  If you want the sides of your planter to be thicker, measure and mark the line to reflect the change in dimensions. For instance, if your planter's walls are 4 in (10 cm)-thick, you'd measure and mark 4 inches (10 cm) from the base of the planter. Spread the non-stick spray around to get an even coating on the inside of the larger box. The cooking spray will make it so that the concrete doesn’t stick to the sides of the larger container.  You can purchase a can of cooking spray online or at a grocery store. You can coat the inside of the larger box with mineral spirits as an alternative to cooking spray. Pour the spirits into the bottom of the box and spread it around on the inside of the box with a rag.
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Get 2 different sized boxes. Use plastic containers rather than boxes. Tape a plastic trash bag around the smaller container. Mark 2 inches (5.1 cm) from the bottom of the large container. Coat the inside of the larger box with cooking spray.