anyone for snails???

I am VERY happy that I don't have to deal with these here.

ill send you these lol

OMG so many in 1 place:O

really is no end to them jacque,, 19 in that pot, 7 earlier on and i think 6 before that , all this evening, if i was to go back out now id have another pot full

My Thrush/Black Birds would luv all those but plez dont postm onto me as im sure their not that hungry :)

lol ok jacque, seen as how mike doesnt have any at all i think we should post ours over

WoW, glad I don't have any either

its an evening routine now, going out to pick them off the plants

Do Meg/Tay go out with u Eileen?

too wet for meg lol but tay came out with me

Escargot anyone?

lol wish my dogs would eat them... had ducks a few yrs ago and never had one snail

I took 21 of the horrible things off my Agapanthus last summer - I put them in my trug and went off to see to something-or-other and when I came back they had all gone - they all crawled back to the Agapanthus!!!! (Then they went for a swim in the stream) Harhar.

lol have you many in your garden this yr spritz?

At least 21 wet ones, Irish! I reckon that's why they ate my 3 Clematis plants.... in revenge!

ah no

All heading for the bin Eileen lol

yep janette, it will be a bin full of slugs by collection day lol

Hey Irish,
Have you tried copper flashing around your plants? It seems to be a great deterrent for the slugs on my dahlias. I just bury it about 2 inches in the ground and leave about 4-6" above the ground wrapped in a cirle around the base of my plants. There is something in the copper that reacts with the slime of the slugs that shocks them. Depending on how dense your plantings are, the copper eventually blends in with the landscape.

think i will have to try that greenjeans............... i was out the garden yesterday evening and saw what i thought was a stone in one of the pots, it was actually a snail burrowing right down into the soil,,,,,, i never knew they did this,,,, know they hide under leaves and such but never saw one before actually burrowing his way down into the pot.

I know that slugs will burrow through the soil, but I didn't know that snails do as well. I have never seen snails like the ones you have (at least not live ones). But it is my understanding that the control is the same for both. I also wash and crush my eggshells to spread around throughout my garden too. They do not like the jagged edges.

ive just been Reading that snails burrow into the soil if the temperature gets too cold,,,,,,,,,,, well you learn something new every day,

Not a pretty picture. I am not freinds with them. They ate all the leaves of my Laburnum tree last year, making it look like a real poor thing. I was picking them off, a number of times, putting them into a plastic bag, and taking them to the woods to free them. I think we need the hedghogs, and thrushes to intervene.

they have homing instinct's so now i put mine in the bin for collection every week lol, doubt they will make it back from the dump, hope not anyhow.