anyone for snails???
By Irish
- 26 Jun, 2008
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19 of them in this pot and its the third time this evening i have been out snail hunting lol, no end to them
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ill send you these lol
26 Jun, 2008
OMG so many in 1 place:O
26 Jun, 2008
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
26 Jun, 2008
My Thrush/Black Birds would luv all those but plez dont postm onto me as im sure their not that hungry :)
26 Jun, 2008
lol ok jacque, seen as how mike doesnt have any at all i think we should post ours over
26 Jun, 2008
WoW, glad I don't have any either
26 Jun, 2008
its an evening routine now, going out to pick them off the plants
26 Jun, 2008
Do Meg/Tay go out with u Eileen?
26 Jun, 2008
too wet for meg lol but tay came out with me
26 Jun, 2008
Escargot anyone?
26 Jun, 2008
lol wish my dogs would eat them... had ducks a few yrs ago and never had one snail
26 Jun, 2008
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.
26 Jun, 2008
lol have you many in your garden this yr spritz?
26 Jun, 2008
At least 21 wet ones, Irish! I reckon that's why they ate my 3 Clematis plants.... in revenge!
26 Jun, 2008
ah no
26 Jun, 2008
All heading for the bin Eileen lol
27 Jun, 2008
yep janette, it will be a bin full of slugs by collection day lol
27 Jun, 2008
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.
27 Jun, 2008
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.
27 Jun, 2008
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.
27 Jun, 2008
ive just been Reading that snails burrow into the soil if the temperature gets too cold,,,,,,,,,,, well you learn something new every day,
27 Jun, 2008
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.
29 Jun, 2008
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.
29 Jun, 2008
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I am VERY happy that I don't have to deal with these here.
26 Jun, 2008