snails & slugs

grubby mitts,

I did think of that too. As far as I know there is nothing wrong with eating British snails. In fact I'm sure Gordon Ramsay did something on it recently. I think you have to soak them in a bucket of water for a few days so they "starve" and purge themselves of excreata (?)before you cook them.



TO

 

You just have to be sure they've not been near any pesticides. But yes they do take a lot of preparing.

Re The Slugs: I've been spraying my lettuce with the water from boiled garlic and its worked really well. I'm thinking of just leaving crushed garlic around the plants to see if that lasts longer (although I did it 4 days ago and even with all the rain they haven't come back).

 

gordon ramsey did cook them yes, if i remember rightly, he kept them in a container and fed them only on carrots. when their poo was orange, he knew thats all that was inside them, so they'd be safe to eat

 

Caught in the act!

I'm afraid this one recently took flying lessons over the hedge!

 

JarBax,for that amount of damage I'd have given it swimming lessons!!!

 

bwahahaha!

I walked passed these new lilies, and lamented the fact that they'd had it - even took a closer look to see if I could spot the blinking culprit (was wondering about lily beetle - which I have yet to come across.) Was wandering back into the house when I spotted the sneaky slime-monster. Unforgivable I'm afraid!

 

I usually send them out into the road to play with the traffic.

Cheers MIKE

 

my night time patrol is slightly more barbaric, i take my trusty trowel with me and splat. walking over my lawn is like walking over egg shells just now. i have toads every where but i think they must be veggies. there are so many slugs n snails around it takes the urine

 

Perhaps we could set up a new enterprise and export organic snails to France!



TO

 

...garlic flavoured ones too!...

 

...garlic flavoured ones too!...