on these little blighters! Helix aspersa.
(image from commons.wikipedia.org)
Having lovingly pricked out 120 lettuce plants over the weekend, Monday, I think, I was devastated and livid this morning to find that 4 snails had munched their way through about half of the lettuces overnight. There was not a snail in sight when I shut up the greenhouse last night, and the lettuces were intact. Not now. And the chickens enjoyed their extra tasty breakfast, too.
So, luckily there are a few lettuce seedlings left which I can use to fill the spaces, and I have moved the trays back to the verandah in my mini-greenhouse. The big greenhouse has had slug pellets strewn around where my cucumber, tomato and pepper plants are - I know that the snails are partial to cucumber as well. I don't like killing things like this, but I am not growing food for snails, unfortunately; if only they could restrict themselves to their fair share, we wouldn't have this problem - they seem to think they can eat the lot...
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3 comments:
Have you tried beer in a saucer sunk in the soil? Any other ideas please share! The weather has been too kind to slugs. WS xxx
Perhaps you could post them to Mags at Fraise Lachrymose- her boys are collecting them for school!
@WS - I think that I would resent having to buy the beer to catch the slugs!
@Angela - that would be a slimy parcel for a postman to deal with if it burst open!!
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