and it's rather relaxing to watch them glide serenely along their terrarium. Most often, the brown garden snail (Cornu aspersum) is the variety kept as a pet. While very common—and destructive ...

Now that the bed has dried out enough to go in and do the dirty work — pull new weeds and the dead remnants of daylily growth ...

While native to the Mediterranean region, the garden snail is now found throughout ... at pet shops with all you would need to create a snail terrarium. It must be snail hatching season.

Overlooking the garden issue, snails are important sources ... is why the trail of slime? If you have a terrarium with snails in your office you notice the slime lines on the glass.

The dozen or so brown garden snails crawling around the plastic, moss-filled terrarium in Evgeny Katz's laboratory look normal, but they have a hidden superpower: they produce electricity.

But for those of us without the space or the budget to think big, creating a terrarium can be a beautiful, fun and fiscally feasible small-scale alternative. Garden correspondent Paul Epsom ...