Aww, cute...! ?

[snohare]

Germaine Greer: Snails deserve our attention - Telegraph

I must confess, I cannot bring myself to hurl a snail to its death on tarmac...I find myself always forced to throw it a mere twenty yards away. Which being as it is within the same garden...

[Peas'n'Kews]

Right, now we know what to do with our snails - parcel them up and send them to Veggiechicken for her wood!

Did you see the research someone (dunno who) did with snails painting nail varnish on their shells so he could recognise them and then taking them up to maybe a mile away? They turned up again eventually, so just throwing them (even into next door's garden!) does no good.

[lottie dolly]

you beat me to it lol,

[veggiechicken]

Right, now we know what to do with our snails - parcel them up and send them to Veggiechicken for her wood!

You're so kind PnK
I can't hurl them either and the banded snails will never end up in salty water - they're too pretty for such an end

[rustylady]

I hate snails, they have eaten all my crops so far this year.

[CaroltheCarrot]

They get squashed, I take no prisoners!

[chris]

Squash, snipped, thrown, smashed with my fist, stamped on, rode over (fun when taking the bins out at night), hammered, poked with a sharp instrument, flipped, and even once headbutted.

Fear not, I'm doing my part to reduce their numbers in south wales

[Mikey]

There's nothing more unpleasant than walking bare footed over a big slug. yuckety yuck yuck.

I'm considering giving up my allotment to the slugs and snails, as all my hard work seems to be merely just providing a free lunch for them year after year.

I'm in the early planning stages of turning my garden in to a potager, at least there I can keep a closer eye on them.

[Peas'n'Kews]

You're so kind PnK

You are most welcome! I wonder if snails would eat their way out of a brown envelope before they got to you???

[veggiechicken]

They eat their way into my letters when they're left in the outside postbox (an old oven) for a few days!
So you'd better keep them for yourself

[Peas'n'Kews]

Aw! I'm sure they would lurve your beautiful wood and do lots of good ......

<spoilsport!>

[veggiechicken]

Save them for when you have a wood of your own! You could even start breeding them in readiness

[Nicos]

There's nothing more unpleasant than walking bare footed over a big slug.

I think it's on a par with barefoot, in the middle of the night, in a pile of cold cat vomit and painfully standing on a piece of Lego under the arch of your foot.

[snohare]

It seems there are two schools of thought here then - those who love finding snails, and those who really love finding snails...?
And yet they are a vital part of the ecosystem. Macrophages - where would our compost heaps be without them ? We've all seen that black stringy stuff they defecate...guess what helps manufacture that lovely black loam we pride ourselves on "creating".
It occurred to me though the other day at the lottie, as I threw my thirty-fifth snail over to the same corner, they do have other uses. I mean, I only chucked them thirty feet or so, and they are going to have to walk home, right ? Yes...right through the ground elder patch...and they are going to eat all the way.
I call that win/win, don't you ? (Or is this my medication talking ? )

[veggiechicken]

Do snails eat ground elder? If so why not box them up and sell them as a nemasnail ground elder killer.
You could become exceedingly wealthy Sno............