Not only does wood ash offer a free supply of vital nutrients, it is also raises the soil pH. If your soil is on the acid side, wood ash is a good thing to use. If soil hovers near 7.0 or above, it ...

This is the year of the snail. My one-acre wood is festooned with them: garden snails, banded snails and even, I think, “Kentish” snails or Monacha cantiana. There will be readers of these words whose ...

Sylvie Pierru, a snail farmer, said: "When people ask what it tastes like, I say it is like walking through the undergrowth after rain. Snail caviar tastes 'woody with notes of mushroom' "It is woody ...

You might find the identical cousin of this Irish banded wood snail in the forests of faraway France. Despite living thousands of kilometres apart, their stripy shells and DNA are so similar that they ...