Farming snails 2: Choosing snails; Care and harvesting; Further improvement: Taking care of your snails: Take away the weeds and creeping grass

Farming snails 2: Choosing snails; Care and harvesting; Further improvement
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Preface

The snails

Choosing your snails

Putting your snails in the pen

When to take out the fully grown snails

Taking care of your snails

Wet the food and shelter plants and moisten the ground

Tend the food and shelter plants

Take away the weeds and creeping grass

Feeding your snails other kinds of food

Building the second pen

When to build the second pen and how to build it

Putting snails in your second pen

Harvesting your snails

When to harvest your snails

How to harvest your snails

What to do with the snails you harvest

Preparing snails for cooking

Further improvement

Building the third pen

Building a bigger pen

Taking better care of your snails

Take away the weeds and creeping grass

169. After your snails are in their pen you must be sure to take away all weeds and especially creeping grass as soon as you see them.

170. Creeping grass grows very fast and so thick that it can kill the food and shelter plants. If this happens, your snails will have no food and no place to find shelter.

171. Taking away weeds and creeping grass when snails are in the pen is very difficult. So, you must be very careful not to hurt them or step on them.

172. If the weeds and creeping grass get too thick, it may be better to move the snails before you take weeds and creeping grass away (see Item 183 in this booklet).

173. Keep the path around the pen clear of weeds, grass and creeping grass. This will help to keep weed seeds and unwanted plants out of the pen.

Keep the path clean

174. If the path is clean, insects will be less likely to cross it to get into the pen and you will be able to see signs of mice, rats and shrews.