Snail Plague! Arrgghh!

[Garden Manager]

The flaming things are driving me mad this spring. there seem to be so many more this year (thanks no doubt to the mild winter). Everything if importance that they can eat has been eaten. Some have even set up home in the greenhouse, where they come out at night to munch on my seedlings and tender plants, which usualy are fairly safe in the greenhouse, but not this year! Thing is, in the garden you can normaly track them down in their hiding places and then kill them, but finding them in the greenhouse is the devils own job. i have no idea where they are hiding in there!

I also think i have  pellet resistant strain in my garden now. Either that or an exceptionaly intellegent bunch of moluscs. Pellets seem to do no good, neither does grit. the only thing that seems to work is copper tape, but this is only effective on large container grown plants (ie hostas), it does not help with soil grown plants or seedlings. Plus it isn't cheap!

[Garden Manager]

[northener]

Yeah ditto. I have them in greenhouse i had sunflower plants in an old cat litter tray on top shelf of staging and the managed to get em. Must have climbing gear. After this i searched every nuck and cranny. found 3 under staging. I reckon catching em red handed at dusk best method batteries for torch required. Its a blessing they don't like Tomatoes

[cambourne7]

I have lost entire mini greenhouses of stuff to them, last time i but a beer trap in which gave me a little breathing room.

[davyw1]

Snails like to hide under things so give them something to hide under like a saucers face down and place your slug pellets under it to attract the slugs.

[manicscousers]

ours seem to like upside down plant pots  ;D