keep snails off cucumbers

finally I see a couple of cucumbers on the plant, about 2cm long. A third one has been eaten by snails. What would you spread on the small cucumbers in order for snails to keep away?

 

Vaseline

 

Ummmmmm......... No, I better not go there........

 

Sniggering uncontrolably in a schoolboy fashion.

No inuendo intended for a change, just didn't see that one coming.

Shiney is going to have a field day now:DOH:

 

poured chilly oil all over the two newborn cucumbers (I had no vaseline) and I am pretty sure that the slugs will not like the taste of that...:happydance:

(I just hope that the cucumbers will not suffer from it)

 

tattybatty

In my experience,the only way to truly deal with slugs and snails is to go outside after a rainstorm,and pick them off.I have tried everything,with limited success.This year,I have managed to acquire a frog in my garden,which seems to be keeping them down a bit.

 

Update on the cucumbers. The oil worked very well for a few days, but then the two small cucumbers got eaten, one completely and one partially, by the snails.
So I have decided to take the plant indoors.

So, as opposed to growing the little plant indoors and transplanting them outside, I am doing the other way round!:yess:

 

When I saw the title I thought it was a Directive.

What a great idea, I thought.

Unfortunately Miraflores has the same problem as me. :wallbang::wallbang:

Would a big notice work? Probably not.