Have pleaded with the birds to eat the slugs and snails and not my fruit, (they are welcome to the windfalls, and fed) In the summer I swoed cavelo nero, bought copper tape and a roll of same, carefully put rings around the young plants, didnt deter them in the slightest. You have to strike a balance.
I could not deliberately stand on snails.....i would collect them and leave them somwehere nice out on my dog walking route. i always pick up worms on the road too and drop them in the field, hate the thought of them being runover ☹️ I've taken to taking a bag of sunflower seeds in my coat pocket on my dog walk and a robin and a blackbird meet us along the way for breakfast ?
I never see them out walking the dogs, definitely wouldnt kill a worm, they are usefull.But snails and slugs so many I couldnt carry them out with me, without a large bucket!
Ive always been kind of disgusted by snails and would never touch them but i feel some kind of power when im wearing my hunter boots in the garden. I love the loud CRUNCH the snails make when my heels stomp them into the dirt. Just hard to get their remains out of the treads.
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treehugger80, I saw a programme on TV where the painted the snail shells with nail varnish to identify them, and they come back a long way.
Have pleaded with the birds to eat the slugs and snails and not my fruit, (they are welcome to the windfalls, and fed) In the summer I swoed cavelo nero, bought copper tape and a roll of same, carefully put rings around the young plants, didnt deter them in the slightest. You have to strike a balance.
Ah phillipa, you mean the "shell" design!!!
I could not deliberately stand on snails.....i would collect them and leave them somwehere nice out on my dog walking route. i always pick up worms on the road too and drop them in the field, hate the thought of them being runover ☹️ I've taken to taking a bag of sunflower seeds in my coat pocket on my dog walk and a robin and a blackbird meet us along the way for breakfast ?
I never see them out walking the dogs, definitely wouldnt kill a worm, they are usefull.But snails and slugs so many I couldnt carry them out with me, without a large bucket!
Thank you for promoting the Snail Lover's Society Philippa!
Loana, looks as though you might enjoy membership?
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I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...