Saving snails

mumtotwo · 22-05-2009, 11:55

On the road that leads to my kids school there seems to be a huge amount of snails on the path.
With all the kids running up and down quite a few are being squashed,so i have started picking them up and putting them on the garden walls.
Now i know im gonna get the,'they eat my plants' but try explaining that to a 4yr whos sad because there are squashed snails all over!
We even saw a tiny little one this afternoon and safely put him out of harms way.

flashy · 22-05-2009, 11:57

lol i'm sure whoevers garden it was is gonna love you Bernie

they get all over my veggies in the summer, darn things

Neil · 22-05-2009, 12:09

Shaz, we have a plant the snails and slugs love eating. Last year I put a ring of sand around it and it did not get eaten at all. Maybe the same would work for your veggies.

flashy · 22-05-2009, 13:43

salt works too Neil and it also works on slugs, it kinda melts them

Less · 22-05-2009, 16:25

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Originally Posted by mumtotwo

On the road that leads to my kids school there seems to be a huge amount of snails on the path.
With all the kids running up and down quite a few are being squashed,so i have started picking them up and putting them on the garden walls.
Now i know im gonna get the,'they eat my plants' but try explaining that to a 4yr whos sad because there are squashed snails all over!
We even saw a tiny little one this afternoon and safely put him out of harms way.

I had an extraordinary amount of snails appear both at the front and the back of the house, I googled and found that they are edible, I then put them into a container hoping, (as according to the instructions), they would breed and give me a delicious change in my diet.

Well, they survived the winter, they still roam around their imitation garden, but reproduction? No, afraid not, I would starve to death if I relied on these creatures!

Mick · 22-05-2009, 16:30

Only because your not fast enough to catch them though

SPUGGIE J · 22-05-2009, 17:12

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Originally Posted by Less

I had an extraordinary amount of snails appear both at the front and the back of the house, I googled and found that they are edible, I then put them into a container hoping, (as according to the instructions), they would breed and give me a delicious change in my diet.

Well, they survived the winter, they still roam around their imitation garden, but reproduction? No, afraid not, I would starve to death if I relied on these creatures!

Ask the French to send you some when they let the next lot of illeal immigrents over. Question though about the "snail farm" did you ask the vet if they were male and female?

I know the answer to this so give em some viagra and you will have all you want. Could sell em and make a few bob as well.

Less · 22-05-2009, 17:28

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Originally Posted by SPUGGIE J

Ask the French to send you some when they let the next lot of illeal immigrents over. Question though about the "snail farm" did you ask the vet if they were male and female?

I know the answer to this so give em some viagra and you will have all you want. Could sell em and make a few bob as well.

Excuse me? but I think you will find snail's are hermaphrodites.

SPUGGIE J · 22-05-2009, 18:42

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Originally Posted by Less

Excuse me? but I think you will find snail's are hermaphrodites.

Thats what I was getting at

Must be slow on the uptake.

the snails that is n must be priest snails

Margaret Pilkington · 22-05-2009, 20:29

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Originally Posted by mumtotwo

On the road that leads to my kids school there seems to be a huge amount of snails on the path.
With all the kids running up and down quite a few are being squashed,so i have started picking them up and putting them on the garden walls.
Now i know im gonna get the,'they eat my plants' but try explaining that to a 4yr whos sad because there are squashed snails all over!
We even saw a tiny little one this afternoon and safely put him out of harms way.

Thought it was only me who did that......I can't bear to stand on them.

Retlaw · 22-05-2009, 20:47

The large snails wih the coloured shell are not native to this country, the Romans imported them for food delicacy's. They are a bluudy nusiance in the garden, and they get squashed. Seem to be winning, now its how to get rid of the little grey snails, the old gardeners used to swear that soot works on them.

Retlaw.

West Ender · 22-05-2009, 21:46

Years ago we didn't see many snails. There were plenty of slugs but snails were a bit of a rarity and I can remember the children collecting them, in jam jars, when we were on holiday in our caravan in Wales.

Now, my garden gets overrun with the blasted things and I'm afraid I crunch them underfoot. I can't afford to be sentimental when I have lettuces and cabbages at stake. The increase in snails has coincided with the decrease in thrushes - I haven't seen a thrush in my garden for years.

cherokee · 22-05-2009, 21:59

Must admit I hate the damn things. they have eaten my plants ,
I have put some broken egg shells down now and they dont like them so round two to me lol!!

My garden is full of em and im forever having close encounters with them , I couldnt touch em No way!! and just looking at them squished up onto something makes me wanna be sick.
However I couldnt squash one either.

I ran over a frog with the car last year out side our house and I felt like i should have been on trial for murder. and the kids didnt help either with putting on a guilt trip ..