Will coffee grounds keep snails off plants

Loads do snails in my little garden. How can I keep them off my young container growing tomato plants? And the only flowers I can grow are geraniums, as they eat any others I plant. Copper barriers don’t work.

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#1 Comment By Downtoearthdigs On 06/08/2015 @ 3:57 pm

Coffee grounds would not be a deterrent to slugs.
I have good luck with beer traps.

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