Decided to toss some squash seeds along the fence a few days ago. They all started to come up nicely, but low and behold yesterday morning to my great chagrin we'd

had an attack of the snails during the nite! EEEEEK! The greedy little buggers ate up two entire plants on one "hill" (as well as a new basil plant I'd set out!). See "before" and "after" pictures. I hesitate to resort to pesticides such as slug and snail bait granules this year, so put out saucers of beer in the garden and there are a couple fat snails in the dishes this morning, however I see another one of my squash plants did disappear. Does anyone have any better ideas for an organic remedy to this problem?