What's growing in my garden... ewww, yuck!
06-13-2011, 11:32 AM
#61
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I had so many in my yard that I finally had to resort to snail poison....I really didn't want to, but I had a dozen or so milkweeds growing for the Monarch caterpillars and the snails just ate them down to the ground...I came out one night after a rain and there had to be hundreds.....I had to pull up all my ground covers because they had whole communities under them......I still feel bad about the poison, but I haven't seen any since....
06-13-2011, 12:52 PM
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Yes, we are having the same problem out here. All the snails and slugs you couldn't possibly count....and they are eating all my flowering plants!! EEEKKKK!!! I have been picking them off my irises and other bulb plants. Early in the morning they crawl out onto the grass for water, and I go out and squish them! I hate snails & slugs!!!
06-13-2011, 03:03 PM
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Originally Posted by Favorite Fabrics
Ugggh. Slugs and snails. Wet spring, nearly daily showers, that's great weather for these nasty creatures.
Ok, I get that they are nature's recycling team first-responders, but there are too many of them!
Does anyone have suggestions? Do I need to rent some ducks? I've read that they like slugs... plenty of protein and oh so juicy :thumbdown:
Ok, I get that they are nature's recycling team first-responders, but there are too many of them!
Does anyone have suggestions? Do I need to rent some ducks? I've read that they like slugs... plenty of protein and oh so juicy :thumbdown:
06-16-2011, 08:23 PM
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Yeah... what IS it with the iris plants that they like to crawl on them so much? And the daylily leaves, and the spiderworts. Ok, the spiderworts I understand, because the flowers only last a day and then it is "yum" mollusk dinnertime!
I squished 132 snails last night. That was just in the vegetable garden. (Ok, I counted because it was a boring task.)
Surely there is a better way to end one's day!
I squished 132 snails last night. That was just in the vegetable garden. (Ok, I counted because it was a boring task.)
Surely there is a better way to end one's day!
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