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Rain. Rain more rain and slugs

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 After rain, following a long dry period, my south facing lawn often looks like Brighton beach on a bank holiday. This doesn't happen in more shaded back garden .  Perhaps they're rehydrating rather than eating.

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  • Joyce21Joyce21 Posts: 15,489

    Snails on paths after rain get crunched underfoot

    SW Scotland
  • Ladybird4Ladybird4 Posts: 37,906

    Any snails that I don't crunch underfoot get thrown onto the garage (flat) roof for the birds. I don't seem to have had as many slugs this year and that is probably due to my hedgehogs.

    Cacoethes: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable
  • Victoria SpongeVictoria Sponge Posts: 3,502

    I think it's been a good year for snails, it's rained here pretty much every week for months, I only came close once to emptying the waterbutts.

    I admit to having a fondness for snails, if I find one in the garden bin I chuck it back in the border. My containers are wrecked though and there are even snails in the hanging basketimage 

    Wearside, England.
  • Mark56Mark56 Posts: 1,653

    Generally been very, very good this year compared to last as a result of the drought from March - July but you're right, they have appeared from the 2 weeks of rain to munch.

  • SussexsunSussexsun Posts: 1,444

    Just been and collected the snails. I have a medium sized flower pot of them which have now been added to the bird feeder. Death by magpie serves them right for nibbling my hostas 

    To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147

    I have been known to stomp on snails ............ but I can't bring myself to harm the lovely stripey humbug snails we have in this garden ... even if they do chomp my hostas ...image


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147

    Harlequin snail ... is there such a thing? I've never heard of it and certainly Mr Google only comes up with a piece of computer-aided fractal design. 

    image

    I'm talking of the Brown Lipped Snail Cepaea nemoralis ... which feeds mainly on decaying vegetable matter, so I'm happy to leave it alone in our garden ... and let the Song thrush help himself 

    image

    Pic's a bit blurry ... sorry, phone's not good at close-ups.  image

    Last edited: 04 August 2017 07:59:00


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117

    I love those too Dove. We don't see many in the garden - mainly the giant, 'where's the all you can eat buffet' , precious plant munching kind  image

    They get chucked into the road. At least they're easy to get hold of for flinging  image

    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147

    Fairy, we seem to have as many Humbugs as we have the ordinary garden snail here image

    Last edited: 04 August 2017 23:14:14


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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