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If they were all gone overnight I guess something else took them e.g. birds. If snails took them you'd see strawberry "skins" still hanging there. Edit: tip f
by reitanqild 10y ago
If they were all gone overnight I guess something else took them e.g. birds.
If snails took them you'd see strawberry "skins" still hanging there.
Edit: tip for removing snails without using questionable chemicals: pour beer into something that is easy for snails to enter. Leave out in the strawberry crop overnight. At least around here snails love beer and drink themselves to death.
- ricksplat 10y agoIf they were all gone it's not likely birds either. Birds can't "see" the red pigmentation in strawberries.
- goldbrick 10y agoWhich birds are you talking about? Birds have excellent color vision.
- ricksplat 10y agoYeah I'm sorry I don't know where I got that idea!!! That said, I grow a lot of these berries and for some reason the birds never go near em.
- vonzeppelin 10y agoIt was definitely the mother the entire time.
- tudorw 10y agoThere is some evidence that snails and slugs respond to culling with increased breeding, instead i run a snail heaven,I plant sacrificial crops in front of my prime concern and if I find any wanderers I put them there, works a treat, remember slugs and snails are essential to release some of the needed chemicals from rotting vegetation,they are not the enemy!
- yoo1I 10y agoDo you have a picture of that? That sounds cool. What do you plant there that's more delicious than strawberries ?
- tudorw 10y agosalad leaves, not much going on at the moment missed the boat this year and settled mostly for sunflowers, got a few pots but no visits from snails or the 'snails without houses' as my Austrian friend calls them :)