Many gardeners find molluscs such as snails and slugs to be a pest as they love to munch on tasty seedlings. This has been the case in our vegetable garden as all the squashes we have planted so far have been eaten by snails!
However, year 3 gardening club members are undaunted: errant snails have been moved to the compost heap to help in the decomposing process and we are trialling wildlife-friendly solutions: strulch (straw mulch) to make it harder for them to reach the seedlings and copper tape which apparently gives them a tiny electrical charge causing them to retreat!
Let’s see what happens…
