"Kate Morgan" wrote in message
o.uk...
The contents of 4 troughs have been gobbled up despite all the usual
tricks to keep the snails off. Is there anything that they don't like, I
am thinking of using plastic flowers :-)

kate

I'm very lucky this year. Perhaps a combination of the cold snap earlier in
the year and the attention to pest-control duties paid by the hens, but I've
got very few this year. This evening's night time slug hunt by torchlight
revealed 2 tiny slugs and 1 tiny snail. Or perhaps the blighters just knew I
was coming and hid