On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 11:57:02 +0100, Tim Tyler wrote
(in message ):

In uk.rec.gardening Repeating Decimal wrote:

I like stepping on them.

Snails give a satisfying crunch. Slugs - on the other hand...


I don't like slugs on the other hand or this hand

--
Patrick

Doug Bashford wrote:

In
On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 19:23:53 -0700, The Real Bev
wrote about:
Catching Snails?

- Doug Bashford wrote:
-
- General purpose bug trap:
-
- 1) Cut the 1/3 top off a 2-liter plastic soda bottle.
- 2) Cut off the top of that, just big enough to allow snails thru.
- Invert modified top and connect it to bottom of jug
- for a one-way funnel trap. Seal with masking tape, ...whatever.
- 3)Bury in ground to keep cool and dark, with open funnel
- near ground surface.
-
- 4) Bait with a little stale beer, the yeast odor will
- attract snails & slugs from 10+ feet away. Or use wet
- yeast. (Use wimpy American yellow beer. Do not use stuff
- like Arogant ******* Ale, it's too hoppy, and too potent.
- http://www.arrogant*******.com/ )
-
- Do step 2) first, for ease of cutting.
-
- Serving suggestions:
- Use plenty of garlic, and
- drink 2 bottles of Arogant ******* Ale first.
-
- Will the recycler take the bottle if it's full of snails?

Naw, but you have "reused" which is normally higher up
the scale than recycling.
You can test this via economics. How much would
a new bug trap cost?...plus it would not accept big snails.
What are the 3 Rs again?
Recycle, reuse, and...

Repair?

Back in the old days a nifty ashtray could be constructed with a metal
funnel, the spring from a real metal ashtray, and a glass bottle. Insert
spring in funnel, insert funnel in bottle. When you were done with your
cigarette, you just dropped it into the bottle, where it would quickly
self-extinguish. When the bottle was full, you could return it to the
store where you bought it and get a nickel (if the store didn't notice the
butts).

Today's factoid: did you know that, at least in California, the common
garden snails are the descendents of fancy imported French snails who
quickly wiped out the indigenous snail population? Or so I've heard.
Along those lines, we reciprocated by sending France a mess of winegrape
cuttings when their own vineyards were wiped out due to some weird grape
disease.

--
Cheers,
Bev
************************************************
Horn broken. Watch for finger.

"Repeating Decimal" wrote in message
...
in article ,
at wrote on 7/27/03 11:25 PM:

Can anyone tell me how to go about catching snails WITHOUT poisoning
them or drowning them? I have heard that snails love beer (can you
blame them?), but how would you set up a snail trap where they are
kept alive, but can't get out?
I intend to cook them, after they have "cleaned themselves" out. Bran
or something?
Anyway, a good snail trap that doesn't poison or drown them? I hear
that they like dark damp areas.

I like stepping on them.

Bill

How about a snail cannon? Similar to a potato cannon, smaller caliber
barrel. One could shoot them into a neighbors yard. Or at the neighbor. In
any case, snails are easy to catch. They don't move quickly.

Chas Hurst

General purpose bug trap:

1) Cut the 1/3 top off a 2-liter plastic soda bottle.
2) Cut off the top of that, just big enough to allow snails thru.
Invert modified top and connect it to bottom of jug
for a one-way funnel trap. Seal with masking tape, ...whatever.
3)Bury in ground to keep cool and dark, with open funnel
near ground surface.

4) Bait with a little stale beer, the yeast odor will
attract snails & slugs from 10+ feet away. Or use wet
yeast. (Use wimpy American yellow beer. Do not use stuff
like Arogant ******* Ale, it's too hoppy, and too potent.
http://www.arrogant*******.com/ )

Do step 2) first, for ease of cutting.

Serving suggestions:
Use plenty of garlic, and
drink 2 bottles of Arogant ******* Ale first.

--Doug

"Doug Bashford" wrote in message
...


General purpose bug trap:

1) Cut the 1/3 top off a 2-liter plastic soda bottle.
2) Cut off the top of that, just big enough to allow snails thru.
Invert modified top and connect it to bottom of jug
for a one-way funnel trap. Seal with masking tape, ...whatever.
3)Bury in ground to keep cool and dark, with open funnel
near ground surface.

4) Bait with a little stale beer, the yeast odor will
attract snails & slugs from 10+ feet away. Or use wet
yeast. (Use wimpy American yellow beer. Do not use stuff
like Arogant ******* Ale, it's too hoppy, and too potent.
http://www.arrogant*******.com/ )

Do step 2) first, for ease of cutting.

Serving suggestions:
Use plenty of garlic, and
drink 2 bottles of Arogant ******* Ale first.

--Doug


Here's a better way to catch snails. Get a really big hook and a strong
line. Attach the hook to a Frenchman, throw him in the backyard, and wait.
:-)

Doug Bashford wrote:

General purpose bug trap:

1) Cut the 1/3 top off a 2-liter plastic soda bottle.
2) Cut off the top of that, just big enough to allow snails thru.
Invert modified top and connect it to bottom of jug
for a one-way funnel trap. Seal with masking tape, ...whatever.
3)Bury in ground to keep cool and dark, with open funnel
near ground surface.

4) Bait with a little stale beer, the yeast odor will
attract snails & slugs from 10+ feet away. Or use wet
yeast. (Use wimpy American yellow beer. Do not use stuff
like Arogant ******* Ale, it's too hoppy, and too potent.
http://www.arrogant*******.com/ )

Do step 2) first, for ease of cutting.

Serving suggestions:
Use plenty of garlic, and
drink 2 bottles of Arogant ******* Ale first.

Will the recycler take the bottle if it's full of snails?

--
Cheers,
Bev
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
If he had any brains, he'd take them out and play with them.

Doug Bashford wrote:

In
On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 19:23:53 -0700, The Real Bev
wrote about:
Catching Snails?

- Doug Bashford wrote:
-
- General purpose bug trap:
-
- 1) Cut the 1/3 top off a 2-liter plastic soda bottle.
- 2) Cut off the top of that, just big enough to allow snails thru.
- Invert modified top and connect it to bottom of jug
- for a one-way funnel trap. Seal with masking tape, ...whatever.
- 3)Bury in ground to keep cool and dark, with open funnel
- near ground surface.
-
- 4) Bait with a little stale beer, the yeast odor will
- attract snails & slugs from 10+ feet away. Or use wet
- yeast. (Use wimpy American yellow beer. Do not use stuff
- like Arogant ******* Ale, it's too hoppy, and too potent.
- http://www.arrogant*******.com/ )
-
- Do step 2) first, for ease of cutting.
-
- Serving suggestions:
- Use plenty of garlic, and
- drink 2 bottles of Arogant ******* Ale first.
-
- Will the recycler take the bottle if it's full of snails?

Naw, but you have "reused" which is normally higher up
the scale than recycling.
You can test this via economics. How much would
a new bug trap cost?...plus it would not accept big snails.
What are the 3 Rs again?
Recycle, reuse, and...

Repair?

Back in the old days a nifty ashtray could be constructed with a metal
funnel, the spring from a real metal ashtray, and a glass bottle. Insert
spring in funnel, insert funnel in bottle. When you were done with your
cigarette, you just dropped it into the bottle, where it would quickly
self-extinguish. When the bottle was full, you could return it to the
store where you bought it and get a nickel (if the store didn't notice the
butts).

Today's factoid: did you know that, at least in California, the common
garden snails are the descendents of fancy imported French snails who
quickly wiped out the indigenous snail population? Or so I've heard.
Along those lines, we reciprocated by sending France a mess of winegrape
cuttings when their own vineyards were wiped out due to some weird grape
disease.

--
Cheers,
Bev
************************************************
Horn broken. Watch for finger.