Garden drama part 2

[Mrs. Colleen]

Now I am pretty sure it is the snails. :toetap:

I sprinkled the Sevin dust all over and last night my basil plant got attacked again! Plus I found two snails out there and some slime on my basil.

I read that snails don't like coffee grounds and since I had some I threw some out there for now but I want to get something that will make them never come back. I put some more thought into the whole beer-snail trap and I am pretty sure I cannot go that route...I would rather repel them than have to clean up their dead bodies. :willy:

So what is the best snail repellent for veggies and herbs?

[neece]

Plate of salt

[Mrs. Colleen]

Plate of salt

But is that going to be the same as the beer trap? Am I going to have to clean up dead snails? :ohnoes: If possible I want to find the least gross way of going about this. :lol:

[neece]

You could also try planting some marigolds around your veggies.

[MEC5LADY]

Plate of salt

Salt is pretty cool in a Wizard of Oz kill the witch kinda way...... I'mmmmmmmm meltingggggggggggggggg.:rofl::leaving:

[Olustee bus]

Mrs Colleen, you have got to come with terms with the very terrible cost of collateral damage in warfare. I know it is not easy but it is just a nature of the beast. dig deep into your soul, put emotional blinders on and let the bombs fly (beer). Remember, it is for the good of the world and you have God's blessings as are you are on the right side of this war.

Kill them all and let God sort'em out.

(except you will have to pick em up :ack:)

[Bucwheat]

Kill them with the salt then plant them next to your crop,fertilizer !

[son93sl2]

all of the following eat snails: frogs, song thrushes, mistle thrushes, redwings, ground beetles, hedgehogs, common shrew, parasitic nematode, marsh flies, slow worms, centipede, common newt, Bacillus Thurungiensis, rooks, jackdaws, jays, magpies, starlings, blackbirds, fieldfare, gulls, owls, robins, toads, moles, common lizard, foxes, mice, rats, testacellid carnivorous slugs, glow worms, and people.

Maybe you can introduce these into your garden.

[Exotix]

The 'ol magnifying glass technique is always fun ... http://i51.tinypic.com/vzyphy.gif

[G8rDMD]

Capture snails, sell to French restaurant, profit.

[Rob]

Just think - you could gather up the snail carcasses and then sell them to the French restaurant down the street.

Win-Win

:cheers:

[Bucwheat]

Dam what a good idea,no one would be the wiser.

[ZipZap]

Beer? Salt?




http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y89/ZipZapX/bsalt.jpg

['77Babe]

all of the following eat snails: frogs, song thrushes, mistle thrushes, redwings, ground beetles, hedgehogs, common shrew, parasitic nematode, marsh flies, slow worms, centipede, common newt, Bacillus Thurungiensis, rooks, jackdaws, jays, magpies, starlings, blackbirds, fieldfare, gulls, owls, robins, toads, moles, common lizard, foxes, mice, rats, testacellid carnivorous slugs, glow worms, and people.

Maybe you can introduce these into your garden.

Gee, you got all of those, but forgot the one useful animal: runner ducks. :lol:

[wicked_c6]

moat filled with thermite and a motion control detonator. Its the only way to be sure.

[xXBUDXx]

Now I am pretty sure it is the snails. :toetap:

I sprinkled the Sevin dust all over and last night my basil plant got attacked again! Plus I found two snails out there and some slime on my basil.

I read that snails don't like coffee grounds and since I had some I threw some out there for now but I want to get something that will make them never come back. I put some more thought into the whole beer-snail trap and I am pretty sure I cannot go that route...I would rather repel them than have to clean up their dead bodies. :willy:

So what is the best snail repellent for veggies and herbs?


:rofl: Pics of "basil"?:waiting:

[lspencer534]

Buy some "Snail Bait" (believe that's the brand name), sprinkle the pellets around. I don't know what happens to them after they die, but I've never had to dispose of a dead one. While the bait does attract them, it also kills them. You have to replenish the bait after rains.

[G8rDMD]

Capture snails, sell to French restaurant, profit.

Just think - you could gather up the snail carcasses and then sell them to the French restaurant down the street.

Win-Win

:cheers:

:slap: :rofl: Great minds and all that stuff :D

[Mrs. Colleen]

Thank everyone.

I wish I could just keep pet owls! We do have a few around that I hear in the middle of the night. My garden is on my patio and is all in pots. I am experimenting to see what will grow in pots and it is frustrating that I cannot keep anything because of the stupid snails. :toetap:

[G8rDMD]

Thank everyone.

I wish I could just keep pet owls! We do have a few around that I hear in the middle of the night. My garden is on my patio and is all in pots. I am experimenting to grow pot and it is frustrating that I cannot keep anything because of the stupid snails. :toetap:

:leaving:

[HOWSER]

I've had great luck with the pellets though never an issue with slugs eating my basil, normally the attack the daylilly flowers/buds.

Works great and instantly.

Beer in a saucer works good to. They'll drown themselves in it.