Green Thumbs: Gardening in Northern Utah

We are having big time snail problems.  It has not been like this our other 2 years gardening in Utah, and it’s bad. I’m wondering if every snail in northern Utah decided to come to our yard.  In under one week, they have killed several plants and working on several others.  Almost everything has at least a bite out of it.  We used snail killer along the outside of the boxes earlier this week, but two mornings since, I have found a group of snails inside the boxes.  My dad sent me two links about killing and managing snails.

from Weekend Gardener.com

from UC Davis

I think I want to go price copper at Lowe’s today, but since we have 4 boxes that are each 32 sq ft, it might get pricey.  The articles describe several traps, and ways to try to get them out of the garden, but since we have so many, and the bait isn’t even working, I might be desperate enough to shell out the money for copper.