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Posted by
sharbear50 9 Orlando (
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Wed, Dec 5, 12 at 16:34
| Just moved into a new older home in south Florida (Pembroke Pines) and the front flower bed has brown snails. They are eating my plants. I have read that Decollate Snails will control them. Does anyone know where to buy these snails? I don't want to use poisons. Thanks in advance. |
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RE: Garden Snails - help!
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| Have you tried beer? I've heard it works for snails as well as slugs, though I haven't tried it myself. |
RE: Garden Snails - help!
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| I use iron phosphate-based slug & snail pellets (from Home Depot) - it's not a poison, but kills the snails, then breaks down into fertilizer. You simply sprinkle the pellets around the area you want to protect - several co.s make it. |
RE: Garden Snails - help!
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| Will give the beer a try until I can get to the store and get some iron phosphate. Thanks for the suggestions. :-) |
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| writersblock, Just how much beer do I have to drink before the snails leave?
I suppose if I drink enough beer I wont care about the snails.
Do I have to drink the beer in front of the snails? MOO |
RE: Garden Snails - help!
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| Lou - I think since snails are generally recognized as a delicacy in French cuisine you would probably have to drink a French brand. Jenlain comes to mind but not sure it is available locally. You might try Stella Artois (Belgian) and see if that works. Anyhow: 
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RE: Garden Snails - help!
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| No, no...Lou needs to marinate the snails in the beer, then cook and eat them. He should use the marinating liquid to make a fine sauce. (That way the beer doesn't go to waste!) Not being such a devotee to haute cuisine, I used to pour the cheapest beer I could find into a dish and set it on the ground with the lip roughly level with the ground, so the snails would crawl in and drown. I used to set the beer out in the evening, since more slugs and snails will come out at night. Apologies to Lou, but I used to dump the beer and dead snails in the morning rather than sautee the snails for breakfast. ;-) At first I used a pie pan, which worked just fine. But since this was to protect the hostas in the front bed, I eventually upgraded to a cute little ceramic snail designed for this purpose. Then I realized my hostas were going to die even if I kept the snails and slugs off them, and left the ceramic snail in the yard for all slimy legless creatures to worship. |
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