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RE: Those slimey slugs and snails!

I have a lovely memory about snails
one I haven't told  my neices yet that I'm sure they would enjoy
I'l not embellish it for you as I will for my neices though :-)

My mother despaired of the damage the snails were causing her garden
and as we had two dogs, and very greedy ones, snail bait was not an
option.
My brother, sister and myself decided to start a snail war.
we were young  :-)

We collected snails for hours 
and in a 900 square metre block 
thats pretty impressive  to still be easily
 finding snails after hours of collecting

Apart from the odd snail battle between ourselves 
most snails were piled up in the middle of the yard
now the fun bit

we lit a bonfire
got an old copper and cooked those snails!
smelt pretty good.

I guess mum thought
 "anything that gets these lazy kids to desnail my garden"
and it worked

for about a month and then they were back

but there was only ever one snailwar.


oh a couple of crows had a real feast in the
 back lane were we dumped the snail bodies


Cheers, Rod

Rod Randall
Weed Risk Assessment
Weed Science Group, Agriculture Western Australia
Home Page  http://www.agric.wa.gov.au/progserv/plants/weeds/Weedsci.htm

             "I weed..."

> ----------
> From: 	nsterman@ucsd.edu
> Reply To: 	nsterman@ucsd.edu
> Sent: 	Thursday, 7 May 1998 12:46 PM
> To: 	perennials@mallorn.com; medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
> Subject: 	Those slimey slugs and snails!
> 
> Hi eveyone!  Indulge me in a moment of bragging.
> 
> It's snail and slug time here in Southern California.  Those pesky
> mollusks
> get their little rasping mouths on every bit of living plant material
> they
> can find.  Which means that I spend many after-dark hours on 'snail
> patrol.'  Last night, I was fed up with the slimy goo the critters
> leave on
> my fingers and feet (I squish 'em when I can), so I grabbed a plastic
> bag,
> added a few shakes of salt and then got a tweezer from the bathroom.
> I
> used the tweezer to grab the offenders, threw them into the bag and
> shook
> them down into the salt.  Hooray!  Dead bad-guys!  Clean hands!   A
> night
> to remember.....
> 
> Nan
> 
> 
> +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
> Nan Sterman, Master Composter in Residency
> Olivenhain, California
> Sunset Zone 24, USDA Zone 10b or 11
> +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
> So goes an old chinese proverb:
>          If you want to be happy for a few hours, get drunk;
>          If you want to be happy for a week-end get married;
>          If you want to be happy for a week, barbeque a pig;
>          If you want to be happy all your life long become a gardener 
> 
>
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