put a net over the plants to provide a bit of shade
We do the same here as we get up to 47C in summer.
I don't think I've seen snails pestering our garden.
The little scallywags are all at my house eating my cabbages!
It seems you have your share of scallywags though, I hope you make some of them fly.
We have a big bush near the house which the kids appropriately named the "caterpillar city" because there's really a lot of them on there. We were lucky to see the "magic" happen when hubs brought one chrysalis inside the house. 😂
I like caterpillars...My eyebrow's resemble them. I like the sound of that caterpillar city...Maybe someday my eyebrows will get to go there. 😂