Fewer gastropods WE!! If you can count them it's FEWER, if it's an amorphous mass or a concept or a situation it's LESS. eg, less cloudy, fewer clouds; less crowded, fewer people; less slug damage, fewer gastropods.........
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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I am agreeing with you DampGardenMan, less rain, less slimy gastropods, we do have more hedgehogs this year, but according to some reports I have read, they don't eat them anyway. So I will put it down to less rain for now.
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Can’t say we have fewer snails this year but, like Obelixx, I launch them across the road and into the hedgerow.
I’m tempted by one of these
https://www.niwaki.com/store/niwaki-forged-trowel/