The farms near me just finished harvest a couple weeks back and have cut the weeds for tilling. Interestingly one of tem planted another curcubit (sprawling type) immediately after. Havent talked with them yet so not sure what they are yet, just see seedlings.
The pumpkins i got were pretty bland. No idea why, though this years wet plus fertilizer makes me think its just watery pumped up veg. We got zero harvest a snails ate all my plants…f*@!ers
Not in the sense you are. We have raised riws, but only 20~30 cm. I agree raised beds are wonderful, but the costs would be too high for us to make them.
They wont stop them though. We find snails on 3rd and 4rh floors here eating the concrete.
I would think in Hokkaido its less sever due to colder temps. My only snail issue is with african land snails. Those things are somethun else. All the small native ones i can live with their damage is minimal.
They really are a bane to farmers. We can thank them for a lot of chemicals used in our plant food production in taiwan. Ironically they are still farmed a lot for meat, so they are here to stay. I guess southern japan could have them?
We can collected bucket loads daily. Too tresome now we just give them astimp and move on. Calcium for the soil.
Google pic. Havent seen any that big, but pretty close. Last year saw a massive one about 90% that size around Daan park. So big you wonder if you might hurt yourself trying to kill them.