Rotten Snails
Last post 23-05-2005 3:31 PM by ken69. 6 replies.
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20/12/2004 08:55 PM
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I was always told that if you collected snails and kept them in a jam jar of water, with the xxxxx top on, until such time that they had died and the liquid turned into a smelly mixture of rotten snails.
This could then be used diluted in the watering can on susceptible plants and it would keep the snails away.
I can understand the reasoning behind it but as yet I have never tried it.
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21/12/2004 08:52 AM
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On 12/20/2004 8:55:11 PM Charles Taylor wrote:
'kept them in a jam jar of water, with the xxxxx top on, ---------------
Having just read my post above and noticed that it has been vetted, I thought what a mess this country has got into.
Am I allowed to say 'twist top'.
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21/12/2004 10:58 AM
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- Obelix
- Belgium
- 24 Nov 2004
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Don't fume Charles. They've obviously put a standard filter on these boards but the moderators have, so far, been amenable to modifying it. Not so long ago we couldn't say hello or hellebore without lots of xxxx appearing.
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29/12/2004 12:10 PM
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I have told this story regarding rotten snails before on another board so apologies if you've heard it. Years ago my OH (having read this "cure" in a magazine) collected hundreds of snails from our garden into a bucket, poured salt and water all over them, covered the bucket and left them to stew. He was supposed to water parts of the garden with the resulting fluid in order to deter other snails. Unfortunately (and unsuprisingly) he lost interest in the task and the bucket of rotting snails got left for a long while until I protested that they were beginning to smell. He then chucked the revolting mixture all over the garden. The stench was so appalling that we couldn't use the garden for days and had to keep all the back windows closed. As we live in a terraced house the neighbours on both sides were less than impressed! The only thing that wasn't kept away by the rotting stink was other snails!!!
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08/04/2005 09:54 AM
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Research suggests that the presence of slime from resident slugs/snails deters slugs and snails entering an area. So I suppose a bucket of slime from dead molluscs might have a similar effect. At least until it had rotted or been washed away by rain.
Beware the bat-eared bogweevil
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22/05/2005 08:06 PM
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- abigail
- 22 May 2005
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I think that if you go to the trouble of collecting snails you've solved the problem anyway without stinkiness or snail death. I round them up once every week or two, drop them off in some nettles by the river bank on way home from allotment.
my mum says they always return home, but in my case they'd have to use the pedestrian crossing and they've never worked out how to press the buttons.
it does work though.
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23/05/2005 03:31 PM
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- ken69
- Norfolk UK
- 23 Nov 2004
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They would have to use the pedestrian crossing at night, Abigail, whilst less traffic,mind you if they pressed the button too often , they could be had up for it, or even loitering.
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