rgreen makes some valid points :-) However, not sure if your question was answered.....yes, baby snails could do that sort of damage. Adult snails would do even more. A couple of adult snails can decimate a mature hosta almost overnight!! And they seem to like greens of any type.

I don't grow any edibles that snails really like but I do grow a bunch of ornamentals that are high on their preferred menu....so I bait for them. I use an iron phosphate product that is safe around pets and other wildlife. YMMV

Slugs crawl all over my spinach too, but never spotted any eggs on the foliage. I use a large 4 gallon saucepan to clean up the freshly harvested leaves. Cover the spinach with water and use hand like a washing machine agitator to clean off the spinach (3 rinses when leafs are extra soily from hard rains.). Organic control - beer traps - beer in a shallow saucer at soil level.

Guess I can't see any snails in the pics if there are some or slug trails. Can't see anything really wrong with the leaves either other than some tip deforming. Do see some sort of insect eggs same as you posted before. Which if I recall correctly were identified then as possible leaf miners. Why they are still on there when they can just be rubbed off I'm not sure.

Good rant rgreen! :-)

Dave

rgreen hit right at home.

That doesn't look like slug damage to me. I've never seen them eat consistently from the edges in. It looks to me as if the leaf tip was damaged (or partly eaten by something) before the leave fully unfurled. And if you're asking whether the white specks are slugs, they don't look anything like any slugs I've ever seen. Photo isn't clear, but they do look like some kind of egg... not slug eggs, though.