>>georg parlow wrote
>>the very high organic content and the stabilized ph relieved the
snails from their job.
this sounds credible. i took on a friends garden a few years back. at the time it resembled a building site. full of rubble & burnt mattresses & heaps of glass & scrap metal & such. we agreed i'd take a couple of veg beds as 'payment'. i've never known anywhere with such a vast snail population. every step & everywhere you looked - snails. last year in high summer en masse they ascended the stone walls of the house. out front & bold - hundreds of snails cooking up there. quite bizarre. i intervened this spring & halved the populous. & still they're everywhere.
happen there's an un-pc method for raising snails here. get some land, trash it & pick yr harvest!
ciao
paulb