Snails

Hola Gayle

Actually Dave has a good point, majority of the common garden snails are edible and if cooked properly can be very nice with garlic, although some snails can taste very earthy.

Has anyone heard about the snail trail theory? Evidently something in the slime of older snails stops younger snails from maturing. If you kill the bigger snails, the trails disappear?

Bran can be useful for killing snails, buy it cheap from pet food shops not health food shops, they love it and gorge themselves on it - unfortunatelt it does kill them though.

Cat biscuits is also something you coluld try, place these biscuits in the vicinity of the plants, they love these too and they take a long time to eat and digest, this does not kill the snail but may be a good deterent.

Another suggestion would be to lay down fleece flat on the soil around the area that is being eaten, molluscs get onto the fleece, can't move so they just sit there, in the morning you can dispose of them without any harm.

Sprinkloing soot from a chimney around the plants may work, they hate that, it makes them explode!!!

You can also buy a product called Snail Ban (I have listed some products on another post for you to look at) - this product is made from crushed rock from Australia, is highly absorbent, it dries up the snail so they move on elsewhere.

You can bury pots into the ground filled with beer, this has been effective against slugs and snails for years, depends if you want them to die or not I guess. Hedgehogs will eat dead snails if you tip them out for them to eat, so I guess something else benefits from the death of another.

You could also try sharp sand around the base of your plants - I am going to add sand around my vegetable plot to annoy the ants also. Place sand about 4-5 inches wide.

And last but not least, try egg shells, hard to walk on also, too sharp for many small creatures.

Hope that helps and good luck

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