The

The Welcome back to Nomad podcast. I'm Tim Nash, and this is quite literally Joy Brooks.

Hello.

How's garden life, Joy?

Currently it's just rained, so I'm hopeful I might get to see all my little slug and snail friends.

I was going to ask you about your snail friends. I haven't seen any snails in my neighbourhood for ages.

Lots of slugs around. There's lots of slugs merrily attacking the new hedge

that I planted, but I've not seen a snail for ages. Yeah, no, obviously my garden is so

snail friendly that I will see them pretty regularly, but when it rains I'll get a whole

horde of them, that's that's fun.

How do you make a garden snail friendly?

They're like special plants that they like.

I think probably it involves not having a very tidy garden and lots of mulchy sort of stuff that other people might clear up.

So that and I will tend to in the sort of patches that are just what I like to call rewilded,

but that might be a bit fancy for what really exists.

I'll often just throw out kind of old bits of lettuce and carrot and all of that,

and it just lands in the middle of that and they have a great time.

So, yeah, I think for me, it involves

just being me, but for other people it might involve quite a lot of effort of not clearing

away stuff that snails like. I wonder if the same could be true for inside our houses, by not

clearing up, it's somehow better. Well, I like to hope so, because it means my house is better.

Yeah, I think as hope so because it means my house is better.

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