I have a Heath Robinson greenhouse made from recycled bits and pieces but space inside is very limited. I recently found a load of stuff on YouTube about space saving seed snails so I have been experimenting.
Here is a typical seed snail ready to plant on. I keep mine in plant pots for convenience but tape or elastic bands work to keep them together.
And here is one of mine unrolled showing how well they work.
Here is a typical YouTube clip explaining a bit more.
Alright! I admit it!
I really did think the thread was about rearing/raising Snails for the garden… 'cos if they are kept under some control they can/do provide a tasty meal not only for humans but for birds and other natural marauders… 
Me too, @Stella .
I would be too squeamish at the NATO’s end of things to raise snails, though.
Spellcheck changed “abattoir” to “NATO’s”. Weird.
I took read it that way, and suspect a certain amount of intent in the title. 
Yes of course there was. I was alluding to a number of threads posted about killing snails this time last year. If I had called the thread "A new way to grow seedlings using a strip of plastic layered with dirt and rolled up into a cylinder, a) it would not fit the number of characters allowed for a title and b) would hardly have attracted any attention to what I think is an exiting idea for propagating seeds.
Maybe a new career awaits in marketing.
The start might be a bit sluggish, but I’m sure people would soon shell out.
That’s the problem with snails: if they don’t have a shell then they become very sluggish.
When eating snails- we were offered them by our French friends in the form of snail sausages. The last one I struggled to eat broke my newly done filling in a back tooth. They tasted overwhelmingly of garlic and not much else. Shall avoid them in the future
They can do. Makes you wonder why they bothered with the snail part!
A restaurant near us does snails with garlic and parsley; also walnut butter, Roquefort (tastes overwhelmingly of …). The flavours are well-balanced, especially the classic garlic butter ones.
I’ve tasted unflavoured snail. It’s very pleasant (they’d been roasted on a skewer): a sort of meaty, umami, earthy flavour.
I visited a snail farm a while ago. They use poly tunnels. I found it interesting that the smell in the tunnels was very similar to the flavour of snail.
We were invited to an escargolade at a neighbouring farm. There were two large bowls of snails - one for men and one for women. I never understood the difference and didn’t want to show my ignorance by asking. It was a great social event and culinary experience.
