Thanks Heidi!

Can report that I now have more cucumber plants growing which are safe from the snails at the mo (fingers crossed), but my spaghetti courgette plants got eaten and I have just one left. More seed planting to do!!

Happy gardening!

Angel cuddles,

Sarah



This is what happens to a lot of snails here in France. I can't actually bring myself to partake of such delicacies!!

Hello from sunny South of France, JoAnne!

Glad to see your sunny smile here.

In the evening, when we come back in the dark, after it has been raining, we go crunch crunch crunch across the garden and crunch again, as we go up onto the terrace and to the entrance door. It's like invasion of the snails!!

When it has rained here, we see people going along the verges with their metal baskets, collecting snails.

My son helps a disabled lady in our village from time to time. Sometimes when someone has collected snails for her, she asks him to help her cook them. One time she had guests coming and invited him to stay and share the snails with them. He hastily made a retreat!!

I've got some more gardening to do.

So glad you visited and I hope you can bring some photos of your garden here. That would be great.

Angel cuddles,

Sarah

Hi Sarah,

I haven't been here for a while and though it about time to stop in and catch up!! 

First - YUK to that place of French Delicacy!!  You can keep it in France, OK?

Sorry to hear about your snail issues - I have been so frustrated by those guys.  Now, I use the beer and the copper that Heidi told you about.  I haven't been bothered by them for a long while now.

It is so green  and beautiful here in Pennsylvania right now.  I have done lots of gardening at our new house and I have now duplicated the bird/butterfly garden that I had at our last home.  I used a copper tubing in there as I could do it easily in the newly tilled soil.

There will be photos later in the season.  Prime time should be mid to late June. And I hope my photographic skills (think it's called patience) will allow me to catch the butterflies and  birds in their perfect little garden.

This forum just keeps getting better and better!!  I'll be back!

Judy

(Hope my little garden angel will help keep you snail free)

Hello Judy!

That garden angel is so sweet and looks like my Isabelle.

I second your YUK on the snail eating!!

My hubby does lots of plumbing. Perhaps I can go round after him, collecting copper piping that he's discarded.

You've been busy and I can't wait to see the pics of your new garden.

I discovered a fantastic garden today. Well Gerri is sharing it with us over in her forum. It's in the form of a slide show and took a while to download but it was well worth the wait. Absolutely wonderful. I lost myself in Bruno's garden for a while and really savoured the moment. The background birdsong music is so relaxing too.

I'll give you the link to Gerri's forum where you can discover for yourselves:

http://community.adlandpro.com/forums/thread/1037120.aspx



This is one of many sculptures in Bruno's garden in Marysville, Australia, just to give you a taster. I chose the unicorn for Raymonde and Isabelle, of course, but there are some beautiful sculptures in the garden. When I visit Australia (it's on my list), I'll have to put this garden on the itinerary.

Angel cuddles,

Sarah