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shriek
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help! goddamn snails are attacking
#2893158 - 07/15/04 11:17 AM (19 years, 8 months ago) |
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ok i have endet up in a bloody war here. i started to see a snail here and there a week ago, i threw them in a bucket with some pure alcohol in it. but they just keep coming and just now i found snail on more sacred important plants so the shit needs to stop now.
any tricks?`i want to be careful with chemicals also since alot of the plants are for consumption, even for food.
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Re: help! goddamn snails are attacking [Re: shriek]
#2893161 - 07/15/04 11:18 AM (19 years, 8 months ago) |
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err can someone move this to correct forum :P i thought i was in ethnogarden
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mntlfngrs
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Re: help! goddamn snails are attacking [Re: shriek]
#2893181 - 07/15/04 11:31 AM (19 years, 8 months ago) |
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couldn't you ring them with some salt? grab a bag of ice melt and ring you plants, house, .
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Re: help! goddamn snails are attacking [Re: shriek]
#2893194 - 07/15/04 11:35 AM (19 years, 8 months ago) |
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put a 1 foot perimeter of copper tape around your sacred plants- snails can't cross it. Also diatamaceous earth sprinkled around the Earth surrounding your plants will keep them away. Pick the snails morning and late evening and drown them in water. It is an ongoing battle, my friend! Good luck!
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Re: help! goddamn snails are attacking [Re: Phishgrrl]
#2893304 - 07/15/04 12:21 PM (19 years, 8 months ago) |
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Seems like salt works as good and is cheaper and is on hand. But hey, I'm probably wrong
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Re: help! goddamn snails are attacking [Re: mntlfngrs]
#2893469 - 07/15/04 01:14 PM (19 years, 8 months ago) |
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salt will kill them if you sprinkle it on them, but it is a slow and painful death. You wouldn't want to sprinkle salt all over your garden though, it's not good for the plants.
I actually find the best way to kill them is to instantly smash them with a rock or my foot so they don't know what hit them, but it's easier to drown them in water.
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Re: help! goddamn snails are attacking [Re: shriek]
#2893489 - 07/15/04 01:21 PM (19 years, 8 months ago) |
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An old gardening trick I've hear of is to place small containers full of beer around the area. Snails are attracted to the smell, and they crawl right in where the salt in the beer gets 'em.
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Re: help! goddamn snails are attacking [Re: Le_Canard]
#2893506 - 07/15/04 01:25 PM (19 years, 8 months ago) |
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^^^ what they said. beer, copper wire and diatamacious earth all work. i've found the copper to work the best though.
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Re: help! goddamn snails are attacking [Re: shriek]
#2893788 - 07/15/04 03:20 PM (19 years, 8 months ago) |
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I've also noticed a greater number of snails around. I heard of the salt, but I agree with Phishgirl, it is cruel. I heard somewhere if you put a saucer of beer out, they will be attracted to the beer and drown. Oh wait that's cruel too. Oh well, they'll be drunk, maybe they won't realize what's happening!
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Re: help! goddamn snails are attacking [Re: chinadoll]
#2893819 - 07/15/04 03:36 PM (19 years, 8 months ago) |
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Oh come on!!! salt is cruel but drowning is OK? The point was that they would turn away from the salt that was like a mote around the plants. No killing at all.
Hey how about that? Just build a mote, with a draw-bridge and everything!!!
If you don't want to be "cruel" than put them in a bucket and drop them at work or a park or something.
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Re: help! goddamn snails are attacking [Re: shriek]
#2894061 - 07/15/04 04:43 PM (19 years, 8 months ago) |
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OK, if your talking outdoor grow, what you wana do is go get some wire screen.. then you simply cut this into 4 inch strips or so, you bury 3 inches of it around the area you want to protect, so what you have is a little one inch high fence. The snails underside is very sensative and they will not cross the fence. Once you get most of them outa the garden, non will enter.
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Re: help! goddamn snails are attacking [Re: shriek]
#2894169 - 07/15/04 05:16 PM (19 years, 8 months ago) |
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Eat them ...the French do
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Re: help! goddamn snails are attacking [Re: OldSpice]
#2894609 - 07/15/04 07:18 PM (19 years, 8 months ago) |
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Alounacara said: Eat them ...the French do
Just reminded me of a really bad old joke.
A snail takes his car to the hot-rod shop. He tells the mechanics "I'm tired of being so slow. Trick my car out for me. Make it really fast and put a bitchin paint job on it. And put a big 'S' on the hood for 'Snail'." Two weeks later he picked up his pimpin ride and went zooming all over town. And everywhere he went the people would say.... "Wow! Look at that S car go!"
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Re: help! goddamn snails are attacking [Re: ToTheSummit]
#2894631 - 07/15/04 07:26 PM (19 years, 8 months ago) |
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that's a similar joke to the one in trading places with eddie murphy and dan ackroid... if not the same... funny stuff the first time i was old enough to get it (after having seen the movie tons of time when i was a kid)
i'd train birds to eat them.... then you wouldnt have to buy bird feed, id be the jam.
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Re: help! goddamn snails are attacking [Re: shriek]
#2894644 - 07/15/04 07:31 PM (19 years, 8 months ago) |
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Get a bucket put beer in it the snails r attracted to the sent thell go into it and drown as stuipid as it sounds it does work
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Re: help! goddamn snails are attacking [Re: shriek]
#2894647 - 07/15/04 07:32 PM (19 years, 8 months ago) |
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shriek said: any tricks?`i want to be careful with chemicals also since alot of the plants are for consumption, even for food.
this was my favorite way to handle them... if they make it out... they may live...
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Re: help! goddamn snails are attacking [Re: Prisoner#1]
#2894672 - 07/15/04 07:44 PM (19 years, 8 months ago) |
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That's funny, and fucked up at the same time... good job
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Re: help! goddamn snails are attacking [Re: Prisoner#1]
#2894676 - 07/15/04 07:46 PM (19 years, 8 months ago) |
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if necessary, call to Gondor for help.
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Re: help! goddamn snails are attacking [Re: Prisoner#1]
#2894678 - 07/15/04 07:46 PM (19 years, 8 months ago) |
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Prisoner.....
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Re: help! goddamn snails are attacking [Re: Prisoner#1]
#2894748 - 07/15/04 08:11 PM (19 years, 8 months ago) |
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shriek said: any tricks?`i want to be careful with chemicals also since alot of the plants are for consumption, even for food.
this was my favorite way to handle them... if they make it out... they may live...
that made my day pure gold
thanks for the advices , gonna try cobber tape out
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