snails

Ive a big problem with snails in my garden.  I went out last night armed with torch and salt but there were hundreds! -I hate killing anything but my garden is being destroyed.

Please help

As they say - you can't have everything. Beer traps mean at least they die happy! Other things you could do - encourage birds; make a pond if you haven't got one; make log piles for hedgehogs, frogs, toads etc. You could also pick up the snails and release them in a local wood - just not too local as they have homing instincts and will come back to your garden!!

You could try to work out where they're coming from each night. Ours like to hide up behind the ivy. Then you can head then off by whatever method you prefer. Bet you can't catch them all though!

use blue pellets which you can get from a garden centre they worked for me

I've spent years lobbing mine over the fence in the hope that a bird or passing car will dispatch said critter and I can avoid the guilt trip but this year I not only read that they make their way home but also realised that it is only man that has a conscience and that nature encourages survival of the fittest so, I stamp on snails and guillotine slugs sans guilt (knowing that a grumpy tiger or bear would not think twice to do it to me) and at least I am not prolonging their suffering with poisons or salt etc.

Fast and guiltless survival of the fittest just as nature dictates.

I finally summed up the courage today and crunched a snail... it was having a feast on my marigolds!! Flipping cheek!

I once speared a big fat brown slug with my gardening fork & it screamed put me off a bit didnt realise they hadfeelings ha ha

i take great delight in standing on a slug or snail but forgot myself the other morning when i popped out to the shed and stood on two with my slippers not quite the same as my wellies it wasnt nice having to scrape and wash the sole of my slippers!!

I had an ongoing war for almost a year ,every night and whenever I went out in the garden. I stood on then ,got them drunk ,salted them ,threw them and took them on long country walks. What a bloke I hear you all whisper . Yes . It worked and I proudly   say that I have almost no slug or snail problem.  The odd one now and again but nothing compared to invasion of before.  So on my opinion it takes bloody hard work over a long period of time ,but the reward is as my friend Tony says is GGGGRRREAT.

I love the sound of crunching snails underfoot in the evening.  (the only good snail is a dead snail)

Hi

I recently purchased some organic slug pellets from a well known auction site which are made of sheeps wool

and they work a treat and are non toxic as well

Slug Gone Wool Pellets

hope this helps

Rob

We use organic slug pellets, they cost £5 a tub..the snails and slugs love em, they have a bite then go under a stone to die, so you won't see their dead slimey bodies everywhere. I still from time to time if i see one it gets squashed. By the way they love compost bins...so remember to sprinkle some pellets around the bins.

Hi

I have also used the nematodes remedy and this seems to have cut down the slug population as well

Rob