Snails with shells or slugs, Mindy?
Marie

-Mindy, I am experiencing the same thing this year. I have never had a snail in my garden before. Now I have found two in my shade garden, and where there are two there are likely more. Mine are under a half-inch big. They do have shells. Like you, I have notiticed no damage on any of the plants. Though they are so tiny I have to wonder if the damage would be very pronounced. I know many have great trouble with snails champing down on the plants. Hopefully our snails will stay small and docile! ;-)
CMK

We've always had to deal with slugs here BUT it was about 10 or so years ago the snails started appearing. Several years ago Alfred Hitchcock could have made a horror movie similar to The Birds thing right here in my garden. At night we had the outside of our windows covered with the slimy B's, made your skin crawl.
This mass invasion of snails this one particular year made me think they were escapes from an Escargot Farm, actually had me giving my neighbors funny looks.
We still have slugs and snails to deal with, having a very cold winter should put a bit of a dent in the numbers but you still have to deal with the egg hatch.
Snail eggs look a bit like tapioca, or, maybe that's not really Osmocote your seeing in your pots you bring home from....
The problem is not as big as it once was here but is still a problem, when we start to see damage it's night patrol with a flashlight especially around the Hostas and I do use a Safer's product in some spots.

Annette