Don't look if you dislike snails!

[Jayway]

FACT: If you take the larger snails from your garden, paint blobs on them with nail varnish, put them out in the field - THEY WILL RETURN to the same lettuce in a couple of days. Experiment proven by me , now they get eaten .

[Horus]

Jayway wrote:

Beer gives her a lovely shiny coat - hows your hair, Horus ?

I can reliably report a full head of extremely glossy hair

Very interesting fact about the 'homing snails' I knew pidgeons did that, but not snails
I am off for a 5 mile walk along a very scenic canal later today, so I will take a couple with me and see if they get back before I do

Now where does Mrs H keep her (s)nail varnish? .....................

[bigken]

Thanks for that Jayway I now have a sign in my garden that says "HA CARACOIS" for the benefit of the birds
Talking of having them with a drink, have you noticed how attracted to beer your typical snail seems to be? sink a plastic coffee cup into your garden soil, half fill it with beer or lager, leave it overnight and it will usually be full of drowned, drunken snails by the morning.

"What a way to go" drowned in beer

[Zaydine]

I heard that the best way to clear snails from your garden is to leave half a grapefruit skin out and they all climb into it. Then you pick it up and toss it into your neighbours garden - job done!

[Horus]