Any Taiwan rock melons as sweet as Hokkaido Rock Melons?

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@Explant

My only snail issue is with african land snails.

I regret reading the wikipedia page about this creature.

[QuaSaShao]

Yikes. I’ve never seen a snail here. It gets cool to cold at night here even in the summer so my pest problems are manageable.

[DKaoshuing]

@Explant

@QuaSaShao

@Explant

We got zero harvest a snails ate all my plants…f*@!ers

Do you use covered beds much? Would they have stopped the escargot from pillaging your crop?

I’m using raised, covered beds here in Hokkaido for the first time with all my leafy vegetables and it seems to have stopped the leaf nibblers cold.

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.

This is what hate looks like:

BIG !

[Explant]

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.

[Explant]

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.

[DKaoshuing]

@Explant

Calcium

That goes from house to snail to the soil

[Explant]

Ya lol. They eat the bark off small trees as well. never in the clear til stems are wrist diameter it seems.

[QuaSaShao]

@Explant

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.

It could be worse . . . at least they don’t try to eat you.

Brown bears causing serious problems in Hokkaido

[DKaoshuing]

Yes a lot of bears and too many deer, way too many that they hope people eat them like in Ramen and steaks.

[DKaoshuing]

@DKaoshuing

@Explant

Calcium

That goes from house to snail to the soil

Just don’t eat the smail. the cement is toxic.

[Explant]

@DKaoshuing

@DKaoshuing

@Explant

Calcium

That goes from house to snail to the soil

Just don’t eat the smail. the cement is toxic.

Any less so than the dumplings?

[DKaoshuing]

Musk or Rock Melons from Pingtung it seems at Hanshin Supermarket, a bit expensive

but cheap than this expensive berry from Japan, (who would buy this?)