{"id":13783,"date":"2015-06-30T02:05:34","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T09:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13783"},"modified":"2015-06-30T00:39:38","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T07:39:38","slug":"snail-problems-in-the-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/pests-problems\/snail-problems-in-the-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Snail Problems in the Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Snails can be more damaging than slugs! They like the juicy leaves of lush plants and can consume many times there own weight in green matter from your favorite plants.<br \/>\nThe only thing snails do not do slowly is eat at a snails pace!<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Snails by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/7608384290\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7112\/7608384290_1b957d0298.jpg\" alt=\"Snails\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Snail Problems<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Snails can climb, so stems and stalks are at risk at least as a means of transport to the best feeding station.<\/li>\n<li>Snails are keen on juicy, fleshy, water rich plants and less keen on ripe plant matter<\/li>\n<li>Families of snails breed in damp and dark locations then seem to feed in groups.<\/li>\n<li>My Lupins are always prone to attack despite my best preventative measures. Hostas are also hostage to snails fortune.<\/li>\n<li>Snails do tidy up decaying plants and are part of a natural gardens ecology system so do not kill ruthlessly.<\/li>\n<li>Beware homing snails, they have the ability to creep back to home territory quicker than you expect<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"Lost Gardens of Heligan snails by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/7608382518\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8141\/7608382518_023fdb0811.jpg\" alt=\"Lost Gardens of Heligan snails\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Treatments for Snails and Slugs<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/best-way-of-killing-slugs\/\">Best Way of Killing Snails &amp; Slugs<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/pests-problems\/slug-and-snail-tips\/\">Tips for Dealing with Slugs and Snails<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/pests-problems\/slug-slugs-with-multiple-methods\/\">Different Methods For Dealing With Snails and Slugs<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.weekendgardener.net\/how-to\/snails-slugs.htm\">How to kill snails<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"Garden snails 4 &amp; 5 by davidshort, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/14583963@N00\/6974693190\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7242\/6974693190_f33efe9b6a.jpg\" alt=\"Garden snails 4 &amp; 5\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>In Praise of Snails<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Snails do not burrow under ground like the black slugs that do most garden damage.<\/li>\n<li>Snails do tidy up decaying plants and are part of a natural gardens ecology system so do not kill ruthlessly.<\/li>\n<li>Snails provide food for some birds.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Photo credit<br \/>\nGarden snails 4 &amp; 5 by davidshort, CC BY 2.0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Snails can be more damaging than slugs! They like the juicy leaves of lush plants and can consume many times there own weight in green matter from your favorite plants.<br \/>\nThe only thing snails  do not do slowly is eat at a snails pace!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pests-problems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}