• melbaboutown@aussie.zone
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    Annnd already the snails got all the larger sprouts. I had watered them in after planting and intended to bring the pots inside after the excess water had drained but it seems snails are faster than you think.

    More are on the way but that was really shitty. I saw the large fellow crawling away that probably did it and yeeted him as high and far as I could over the fence.

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      i do not like snails

      i go out most evenings on rainy days, winter and summer, and yeet every single snail I see

      just keep yeeting, you’ll get them all eventually

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          I move them over to the long grass near the compost and just make the garden unattractive to them

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            Unforch the long grass is right next to the tiny area I have for my pots so they’d be back to munching in five. I don’t use poisons so chalk, eggshells, beer and the like would frequently be rained away and require constant replenishment

            This is why I didn’t deliberately plant veg again

            Edit: fwiw I generally aim for them to land on grass in the neighbours yard (the ones whose invasive creeping grass took over my meagre portion). I don’t deliberately hurt them

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              9 days ago

              Copper tape.

              Seriously, copper tape. It forms a tiiiny little electric fence. You can also cut rings out of old pots, line them and make mobile fences

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                9 days ago

                This is sounding like something that costs money or would get procrastinated until it’s never done :(

                My mo is usually to pull them inside at night or put an upturned plastic tub over them at night until they’ve reached a less vulnerable stage

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        They make good eating with garlic butter. In Europe I used to buy frozen dozens of them with the garlic butter already added. In a funky aluminium tray with 12 dints in it ready for the oven.