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Hello @Locksley
There is nothing more disappointing than to discover that pests have decided to dine on carefully nurtured vege seedlings.
A suggestion for your snail problem. I learnt my gardening eons ago from my dad and grandfather. They were excellent vege gardeners.
Their solution to snails was beer. They would tip a glass of beer in a container buried level with the soil and then place an upturned pot with entrance holes cut into it over the dish. Apparently snails are attracted to the yeast in beer, take a dive and "pickle" themselves. The sozzled little sods were then fed to the chooks. Grandad swore that the resulting eggs were the best!
The remainder of the bottle of beer dad and grandad drunk together, sitting on a jarrah log down the back by the old shed. And of course the snail's beer just had to be changed every day in the late afternoon after work. They knew how to do it.
Snails are the one thing I don't have in my Kimberley vege garden - grasshoppers (huge ones), bobtails, snakes, bungarras who undermine everywhere, snakes, frogs and a variety of munching creatures who make regular assaults on my leafy greens, but not snails.
This is how I grow my veges, in wicking beds made from polystrene packing boxes in an enclosed vege house to keep Mr Bower Bird out.
There are now three vege houses, one for tomatoes, one for leafy greens and one for cucumbers, zuchinis, capsicums, chillies and egg plant. Only watermelon, rockmelon, pumpkins and snake beans are grown outside the vege houses. We converted our previous avairies into these enclosed areas.
Give the beer a go and enjoy the gardening.
Annie
There is nothing more disappointing than to discover that pests have decided to dine on carefully nurtured vege seedlings.
A suggestion for your snail problem. I learnt my gardening eons ago from my dad and grandfather. They were excellent vege gardeners.
Their solution to snails was beer. They would tip a glass of beer in a container buried level with the soil and then place an upturned pot with entrance holes cut into it over the dish. Apparently snails are attracted to the yeast in beer, take a dive and "pickle" themselves. The sozzled little sods were then fed to the chooks. Grandad swore that the resulting eggs were the best!
The remainder of the bottle of beer dad and grandad drunk together, sitting on a jarrah log down the back by the old shed. And of course the snail's beer just had to be changed every day in the late afternoon after work. They knew how to do it.
Snails are the one thing I don't have in my Kimberley vege garden - grasshoppers (huge ones), bobtails, snakes, bungarras who undermine everywhere, snakes, frogs and a variety of munching creatures who make regular assaults on my leafy greens, but not snails.
This is how I grow my veges, in wicking beds made from polystrene packing boxes in an enclosed vege house to keep Mr Bower Bird out.
There are now three vege houses, one for tomatoes, one for leafy greens and one for cucumbers, zuchinis, capsicums, chillies and egg plant. Only watermelon, rockmelon, pumpkins and snake beans are grown outside the vege houses. We converted our previous avairies into these enclosed areas.
Give the beer a go and enjoy the gardening.
Annie