What is the best way to get rid of snails once you've caught the blighters? I don't fancy just killing them. Can they serve a useful purpose elsewhere?
2007-06-03 02:33:15 · 8 answers · asked by Alex 2 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
good for you - i wouldnt kill them either. take them to a woodland nearby to you...and let them go! going to give you a star for not killing them - well done!
2007-06-03 02:37:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
They do not serve a useful purpose anywhere. If they served as food for other animals, then why are there always so many snails everywhere. The options of dumping them in a nearby forest, or a plastic bag in the bin are the best.
2007-06-03 04:56:35 · answer #2 · answered by cakes4southafrica 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hi,
Well I can only think of three ways for the blighters' demise.
One being a swim in salted water, as the innards turn to mush.
Not a pretty sight.
A more pleasant one is to hoick them out, coat in batter and deep fry. Escargot and all that.
Well I was pleasantly suprised that done in such a fashion, a small portion is rather nice, although my French girlfreind at the time said something untranslatable, but I think it was along the lines of "muck"
There again, you could shift, en mass, the critters to your competitave neighbours allotment.
Just a thought or two.
Bob
2007-06-03 02:51:24 · answer #3 · answered by Bob the Boat 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
here in australia, kids get bags and collect up to 100 snails and then sell them to french restaurants, i think they encourage the snails to grow, so perhaps you should check out the variety and i doubt you'd get that much
consider using them as pets- seeing that you dont like hurting them! :)
and also, see if you can use them as part of a compost bin- because they like to eat leafy stuff/ vegies and decaying organic matter- i just looked it up, and i think its possible. also their slime might have some use in the bin, try to find a way to contain them though.
2007-06-03 02:46:24 · answer #4 · answered by ghostdude! 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you like eating snails, you can put them in jar foe a coule of wks with carrots. once their secretions have turned orange they are OK to eat. I saw this on Gordan Ramsey's F word.
They are no good for your garden as they just eat all your plants.
You can catch them with an open tub with beer in the bottom!!
2007-06-03 03:00:09 · answer #5 · answered by babydoll 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Collect them up, put them all in a plastic bag, tie the bag up and put them in the dustbin. Haven't seen one of the slimey little things work their way out of the bag yet.
2007-06-03 03:48:30 · answer #6 · answered by Chris 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
i am overnn with snails.they eat all my plant. but there is a solution. they love aclcohol put lager or cidar in a cup container in the morning you will be very surprised. they love it so much they drink their selfs to death but a least they die happy! it does work good luck!
2007-06-03 05:22:24 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
put them on your (flatish)shed roof.
Let them play russian roulette with the seagulls.
The few that survive deserve it
2007-06-03 02:41:21 · answer #8 · answered by ffordcash 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋