Having
lost too many seedlings about this time of year, if it’s mild and humid, I
start a nightly snail hunt armed with a torch and trug.
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May 2018 at 23.00
Tonight's snail score:
5 at teatime
just after it rained and when it was still light
32 just now on a torchlit
walk around the garden and down the drive
about six trodden on and crunched in
the dark.
Four frogs in the pond and one
or two crawling around the undergrowth; hopefully they'll get those little
black sluggy bastards.
Mrs
Banjoman Nothing
seems to get the black slimy gits. I was in the hardware store today and the
chap in front was buying slug killer. We
chatted as you do and he could not believe that he needed it for a third floor
roof garden but they had already eaten half an hosta. The bastards......
Gin
Tube No life rights for snails then... ?
Bentonbag
I don't kill them, I put them in the garden
recycling wheely bin and the council take them away to their compost corner.
What happens next I wot not.
Mrs
Bamjoman When
I was a child I would collect the snails from our garden in a bucket and then
put them over next door’s Fence. This went down very well.........
Bentonbag
The thing is they come back if you don't send them
far enough.
There was a Citizens' Science project where a woman put different
coloured nail-varnish on snails identifying how far away she'd carried them. I
can't remember the distances (half a mile?) but she had to take them a
surprisingly long way before they'd give up coming back.
As a child I would crack and peel the shell off
(like a hard boiled egg) to see what was inside/underneath. Disappointed it wasn't a slug but just a very
soft shell.
Maybe it's karma that
they've been invading my garden for the past decade or two.
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