Want To Get Rid Of Snails? Do You Throw Them Into Next Door's Garden?

[ladybirder]

If you are, you should stop it because most will come back again. Take them a walk down the road for at least 20 metres and then dump them, that should do it according to this study.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2629888/How-banish-snails-dont-tell-neighbours-Best-way-rid-throwing-fence.html

[ummmm]

Except for them ones :-)

[1ozzy]

Or maybe some "white tips".

Only kidding.

I think I like you both.

[B00]

I always chuck em too, do feel a bit guilty but as I throw them into a grassy area (no, ont someone elses garden) I figure they survive- never dawned they'd come back though!

[Frank97]

I like to put them on the bird table and let nature take it's course.

[B00]

If i did that frank, nature would take a very grizzly course- via my cats belly!

[jno]

they just can't take a hint, B00.

[B00]

lol jno

[Frank97]

Your cat eats snails?

[B00]

Probably, but I meant the birds which came to eat the snails.

[Frank97]

Ah, I see.

[Old_Geezer]

It's not going to work, because down the road is someone throwing them 20m back to your garden.

[ladybirder]

ael

Depends if you walk at a snail's pace ael.:-)

Seems most of us are guilty of this and I must admit I do it. It's not nice but boxy's way is worse I think, it must take them a long time to die. I might take mine to the park in future I think.

[smurfchops]

I wouldn't cause them suffering, just walk them to the field over the road and let them wander away

[Tilly2]

A man hears a knock at his door, opens it but doesn't see anyone.
He glances down, sees a snail there and being the conscientious gardener he is, tosses the snail across the road, into a field, away from his property.
Ten years go by, and one day the man hears a knock at the door, but once again, doesn't find anyone there when he answers.
He looks down, sees a snail there.
The snail looks up at him, and in a tiny voice demands, - "WHAT WAS THAT FOR?"

Wrong section, I know but it fits here. xx

[Brinjal]

Stomp stomp stom stomp

[murraymints]

'Fraid I just crunch 'em !!

[Chipchopper]

Maybe if people weren't so obsessed at killing snails, we would have healthier populations of song thrushes, hedgehogs etc.

[thugulike]

My next door neighbour has asked me to throw slugs and snails over into her garden but they never come back. Her hens love them and come running to devour them. I always feel very un-neighbourly though.

[ladybirder]

I agree chip chopper, I don't kill them. Eggshells and grit are doing it for me at the moment.

Hope she gives you some eggs in return thugulike, but not by throwing them over the fence:-)