I feel for you. Snails are my number one pest. IMO nothing stops snails except death. There are ferrous sulphate pellets which are less harmful to other creatures than metaldehyde. There's the torchlight hunting method which can help too. A wire frame will not bother a determined snail. There are copper strips which are said to work but I have never tried them as they are very expensive and I don't grow in
containers. Here are a few of mine along with some runner beans for scale.

Damn. That is not the news I was hoping for hahaha. You look like you are preparing for some decent escargot in that pic.

I guess back to the drawing board.

What does copper do? I have lots of thick gauge speaker wire which is basically 1/4" copper strips. Maybe I can line the container edge?

Literally tons of info available on the net about methods of slug and snail controls. Linked some of it below.

With the search you can also find many previous discussions here about the problems - everything ranging from commercial products like Sluggo, beer traps to copper strips to salt shakers, coffee grounds, crushed clam shells, hand picking, diatomaceous earth, etc. etc.

Dave

Here is a link that might be useful: slug and snail controls

These are the snails I have. I also live in 10-b. I was able to get them under control with iron phosphate.

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Here is my pic of the snails on my peas. I used the wrong code.

I had thousands and thousands of these at one time.

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