some of us are more cruel! I keep a plastic milk bottle in the garden (with some salt in the bottom if you are tender hearted!) and drop any slugs or snail in there as I am gardening. Screwing the lid on tight means I get no escapees. When the pot of disgusting decomposed much is well filled it goes in the dustbin.
Just been pruning the wisteria and hundreds were dropping out of there.
Well gardening granny, that's exactly what I do. It came to a point when I went down the garden one night, as I stood still I Could hear a crunching noise, there they were on my first beautiful cabbages, happily munching away, that's when I declared war, and to be honest, it seems to be the only way. Shame though, I think I need a hedgehog!
reading through, there's certainly a lot of sickos out there aren't there ( Welshonion, Alina W, diggingdoris, gardenning granny Sparklepinksunflower). i haven't joined the debate to cause resentment but snails don't have a voice but i do. what i do with snails is to remove them from my delicate plants using a torch at night and then toss them in my rough herbacious boarder where they do no harm at all.
Heads up! The slugs and snails carry a bacteria that can cause meningitis. If you get slimed hands rub them with dry salt before washing them.
They also carry lungworms which are harmful to pets and if you live near sheep pasture and water courses some snail species carry liver flukes which can infect humans.
TOP TIP try leaving the dead snails in the middle of the patio it will draw the slugs and snails out,as they are decay cleaners and reabsorb each other, so in the night you can gather large numbers of them easily in one convenient pile.
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why put the salt in water - I just sprinkle salt on them and give it all a good shake. It's got to be a quicker death for the snails?
salad fingers, they just come back if you throw them over the fence
Catapult it's amazing how they can fly
some of us are more cruel! I keep a plastic milk bottle in the garden (with some salt in the bottom if you are tender hearted!) and drop any slugs or snail in there as I am gardening. Screwing the lid on tight means I get no escapees. When the pot of disgusting decomposed much is well filled it goes in the dustbin.
Just been pruning the wisteria and hundreds were dropping out of there.
no respite for the gardeners.
Well gardening granny, that's exactly what I do. It came to a point when I went down the garden one night, as I stood still I Could hear a crunching noise, there they were on my first beautiful cabbages, happily munching away, that's when I declared war, and to be honest, it seems to be the only way. Shame though, I think I need a hedgehog!
hi,
reading through, there's certainly a lot of sickos out there aren't there ( Welshonion, Alina W, diggingdoris, gardenning granny Sparklepinksunflower). i haven't joined the debate to cause resentment but snails don't have a voice but i do. what i do with snails is to remove them from my delicate plants using a torch at night and then toss them in my rough herbacious boarder where they do no harm at all.
perhaps lesson on humanity could be recommended.
cheers.
Do you know anyone with chickens? My next door nighbour has them so a lot have flyong lessons. The snails not the chickens.
They also carry lungworms which are harmful to pets and if you live near sheep pasture and water courses some snail species carry liver flukes which can infect humans.
TOP TIP try leaving the dead snails in the middle of the patio it will draw the slugs and snails out,as they are decay cleaners and reabsorb each other, so in the night you can gather large numbers of them easily in one convenient pile.
Can any one please tell me wot the red blotches on my potatoes are THANKS JIM
http://vegetablemdonline.ppath.cornell.edu/factsheets/Potato_Detection.htm
HTH