Snails

I’ve moved my potted Hosta up onto a wooden seat to stop them being eaten and this morning noticed eaten leaves on investigation I found snails in each pot ggrrrr! How do they even know they are even up there never climb the metal legs? Goodness knows how a slug made that journey * Bluebellwould*

But the snails got me back last night on my snail hunt I managed to step on a wet slab, slipped and twisted my ankle dammit ?

I have some plants in pots in a catio which is on my side driveway. It is rough concrete covered partly with artificial turf, surrounded on 2 sides by brick walls, and 3 wood panel walls with no gaps under any of it. There is netting over the top and the side gate to stop cats getting out. I have a small removable rotary clothes dryer sitting in the middle not touching the sides of anything. I go out to bring in my washing after leaving it out overnight and there is a big fat blxxxy slug on top of my nice black top, complete with long slimy trail. How the heck did it get there? There is no chance of any plant surviving the little sods is there?

Is there any truth in the suggestion I've heard that they don't approach plants surrounded by gravel or bark chippings?

A bowl of beer. They get in and die happy!

Broken egg shells have really worked for me. I did a 'control' experiment with one hosta surrounded by slug pellets and the other with crunched-up egg shells, and the egg-shell one is doing better.
I saved them up during the winter and crushed them with a pestle and mortar (tip, wash them as you use them or else they stink!)

Well we’ve got 30 snails less now all 30 safely deposited in the middle of the green, so we’ve all got an equal chance of the blighters sloping into our gardens.
Will go for some other deterrents when I get to the garden ctr.

Mr R does snail hints and dumps them in the park. He swears they find their way back

I’ve tried these for the first time this year, they work really well and don’t harm other wildlife or my dog.

I slug hunt most nights - glass of wine in one hand, salt in the other. It’s never ending though.

Thanks to all who’ve answered.
Will consider slug pellets I think and/or rounding them up snd taking them to the green near our house .
Off to do a snail hunt now.
Thanks again all xx

Slug pellets on soil or around plants. But I get dozens of slugs and snails slithering en masse, up my garden path and driveway on their way for a midnight feast. So I go out, mid evening, and trickle a line of salt at the bottom of the garden gate and along the path. It's like a pile up the next morning.

They are the bane of my gardening life I hate killing things but they just chomp their way through everything I ve tried copper tape and watched them crawl over it this year I put safe pellets down around all my plants and two pots are still shredded to bits it’s so disheartening They never touch weeds ?I do use eggs shells around the plants too but I can’t go through eggs fast enough

Can I hire yours Whitewavemark2?

Ours went walkabout a few years ago and never came back

Hedgehog

When my son looked after the garden one summer when I was away, he had a snail hunt every night. He threw them over the wall into the road.

If you want to try a more natural method, after you have used slug pellets, collect the vacant snail shells, crush them, and sprinkle them around the plants that you want to protect!

I Chuck them over the back fence the neighbours don’t use their garden. I think they find their way back again though ? ?

It is so annoying! I have gone out and collected them up before now. Slug pellets work well though.

Do a snail hunt several times a day and throw them as far as possible over your fence into your neighbours veg patch and hope that they prefer it there !

Slug pellets, without Metaldehyde, safe for other animals.