• Seagoon_@aussie.zone
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    9 days ago

    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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        9 days ago

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

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          9 days ago

          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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      9 days ago

      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.