JF>in  from my newly planted garden... and three of my baby plants have been
JF>rudely  ravaged by snails... Any suggestions for that?  (By the way I have
  Snails are soft, right? They HATE crawling over very rough territory
  (making all that slime must be very debilitating); so some people use
  fine gravel, coarsely crushed eggshells, squares of sandpaper or
  roofing tiles around plants to discourage snails. Some also leave
  boards and a bit of food garbage in little heaps a short distance
  away, then check these traps come morning and destroy any slimy
  invaders.
JF>get in there if  they REALLY wanted to... I read once that you can use a
JF>little cup of stale  beer to deter the snails... I don't exactly know
JF>why... getting them drunk  will curb their appetite for my plants?   '-)
  It's the yeast component of beer that attracts them; so dropping a
  little bread yeast in warm sugar water and placing the resulting
  bubbly stuff in sunken tin cans should do the same. For some reason,
  the beer either kills them outright, or disrupts their "thinking" so
  that they don't take shelter before daybreak. Then sunlight or birds
  kill the survivors.
  Dogs also like yeasts; so they aren't apt to be harmed or made drunk
  by the yeast mixture. (Tell us if they are! I knew one beer-slurping
  dog. :-))
                        ...Sandra...
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