rhubarb wrote:
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Snails can be harmful to young trees eating through tender bark or to
trees with low-growing leaves. Most often the latter are citrus where
they cause the most damage.

surrounding the tree with a layer of something they
don't like to crawl across can help. some people use
strips of copper. we've not needed anything like that
here even for slugs.


We have had snail infestations on citrus trees which required some
serious hand-picking on an almost daily basis. However, the tree still
produced quite well.

If these are young fruit trees and not yet well established, you are
well advised to continue picking the snails off. If the tree is older
and larger, it's not as big an issue. We currently have a very mature
large apple tree which often has slugs and snails on the lower trunk,
but these do not seem to cause a problem to the tree.

some species are quite good with garlic butter...

not many above ground snails here for long. the
birds get them.


songbird