How many of you throw snails into your neighbour's garden?

kindredspirit

Be honest now. Do you give snails in your garden free flying lessons? Do you give their caravanless cousins, slugs, free flying lessons as well or are you discriminatory and, on seeing slugs, behave like a stomping King Kong? Smile

Why should snails get the thrill of free flight whilst their cousins don't get a chance?

Good guy · Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2014 8:20 pm Post subject:

There's no point chucking them next door. Apparently they have a homing instinct, so unless you took them to a garden very far away........
Besides, they make a very satisfying crunch when stepped on.

tagwex · Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2014 10:15 pm Post subject:

You be honest first Kindred Spirit, you got the idea from somewhere, so are your slimy creatures tossed over that fine boundary wall of yours?

My theory is that snails have a shell to be picked up by without touching the slimy little bastards, hence the flying lesson.. Kill on site is my motto.

kindredspirit · Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2014 6:52 am Post subject:

Where did I see that? My mother tosses snails into next door's garden.

I don't find snails and slugs destructive in my garden but as for birds! They're the most destructive wildlife in a garden. Sad

They should be banned.

tippben · Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2014 7:24 am Post subject:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/8004453/Snails-have-homing-instinct-amateur-scientist-discovers.html I kill slugs and snails on sight.

tagwex · Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2014 9:40 am Post subject:

And did she pass on that gene?

kindredspirit · Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2014 9:52 am Post subject:

tagwex · Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2014 11:45 am Post subject:

I need a lizard and a gun for the wood pigeons.

Liz D · Rank attained: Hawthorn Tree Joined: 04 Apr 2010 Posts: 53

Oh my god, I couldn't stop laughing!!

I don't know why but I do the same thing and have done for a while now. It's strange tho, on the odd day I feel a bit sorry for them so once in a while I find an old shrub I don't like and place them in there instead. But usually it's flying lessons...

medieval knievel · Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2014 9:16 pm Post subject:

thankfully the birds seem to keep the slugs and snails in check. we've found snail shells broken on a granite block near the end of the garden.

tagwex · Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2014 10:35 pm Post subject:

Not sure, but I think the thrush has a habit of breaking snail shells.

Good guy · Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2014 1:45 pm Post subject:

Yup, a sure sign a hungry thrush has been at work.

baabamaal · Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2014 3:10 pm Post subject:

When I lived in suburbia, I had a surefire way of overcoming any snail's homing instinct- launching them into the lower atmosphere with the assistance of a tennis racket. I reckoned that if I got them five or six gardens away, they'd be sure to stumble onto somebody else's treasured plants before they got back to mine. The dark side of the force is strong in me. Slugs on the other hand......I have some sunflowers in the greenhouse and one of the little feckers got in the other night. I've never done the salt thing but I was sorely tempted.

tagwex · Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2014 4:44 pm Post subject:

Salt works a treat and it gives untold pleasure watching them explode, think of all the future generations gone too.