The snails go into the field behind; I'm trying to introduce snail hurling as an Olympic Sport Sometimes my dinner guests and I stand at the front door as they are leaving and indulge in a little snail hurling
Guilty as charged I vary which side. They don't have 'plants' as such in their gardens so I know I'm on to a loosing streak and that they will always come back to my garden feast
Lyn - that's rather cruel. What have the neighbours done to deserve that?....
art - I think it would be very entertaining! I was good at slug tossing some years ago when I had an unpleasant (and lazy) neighbour. I used to chuck them over my garage into his garden - and I use the term loosely...midden is what it was. I was fed up leaning over the fence and pulling willow herb out to stop it invading my garden
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
We have thrushes and blackbirds here who enjoy a good snail - in fact, when I have been gardening, I have been known to throw the snails on the walls and paths and wait for the birds to start tapping. A pheasant came to join me today as I dug - don't know if they enjoy snails? I think if snails do come back to the original garden, then in the time it takes them to come back, they are not eating your garden, so you have benefited a bit.
Digging up part of the lawn to increase flower beds today, the blackbirds were very keen to get the worms from the compost from my bin that I was spreading on top of the turned earth. I kept having to stop to let them do their thing.
Orchid lady; is throwing snails over the toad some rural ritual that no one has told me about
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A waste of time maybe......but it makes me feel better
The snails go into the field behind; I'm trying to introduce snail hurling as an Olympic Sport
Sometimes my dinner guests and I stand at the front door as they are leaving and indulge in a little snail hurling
LOL Artjak, what a fab idea, but I like the people over the toad and we share plants so had better no hurl snails their way
Guilty as charged
I vary which side. They don't have 'plants' as such in their gardens so I know I'm on to a loosing streak and that they will always come back to my garden feast 
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Lyn - that's rather cruel. What have the neighbours done to deserve that?....
art - I think it would be very entertaining! I was good at slug tossing some years ago when I had an unpleasant (and lazy) neighbour. I used to chuck them over my garage into his garden - and I use the term loosely...midden is what it was. I was fed up leaning over the fence and pulling willow herb out to stop it invading my garden
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Over the toad OL, is that rhyming slang or do you toss the snails over a toad too
I blame my burnt thumb Lily......that and a noisy house
We have thrushes and blackbirds here who enjoy a good snail - in fact, when I have been gardening, I have been known to throw the snails on the walls and paths and wait for the birds to start tapping. A pheasant came to join me today as I dug - don't know if they enjoy snails? I think if snails do come back to the original garden, then in the time it takes them to come back, they are not eating your garden, so you have benefited a bit.
Digging up part of the lawn to increase flower beds today, the blackbirds were very keen to get the worms from the compost from my bin that I was spreading on top of the turned earth. I kept having to stop to let them do their thing.
Orchid lady; is throwing snails over the toad some rural ritual that no one has told me about
I don't throw them.
Not in one piece anyway
In the sticks near Peterborough