Scot McCall wrote:

What are this year's solutions to the snail problem? They're eating
my wife's plantings before they can take root. She has tried Seven.
TKS for any help,
Scot
FL zone 8


I don't have a problem with snails but rather slugs. So, I built raised
beds made from rough 4x4s - the slugs won't crawl over them because the
rough lumber tears up their soft bellies and they can't get under them.
Once I removed those that were trapped inside, I didn't have a problem.

Mulch is also a great barrier for them. I was having a problem with the
slugs munching on my flowers, but once I put the mulch down, the flowers
thrived. I just use regular pine bark mulch.

And, of course, there's DE, but that washes away. The mulch was a much
better long term solution.

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Zone 5a in Canada's Far East.