get ready for slug attack!!

balloo_2

saraht wrote: »

Can anyone please suggest the cheapest place to buy copper tape/ piping?

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Bought mine off 2 years ago that seems the best option. As for copper piping try the DIY stores ask if they have any damaged lengths cheap. theres always bent and damaged lengths on the shelves.

invisiblecabbage

Hi Saraht, I bought copper tape off ebay last year and put round legs off all my planters, even on legs of my shelving in the greenhouse to keep the little !!!!!!s away from my plants that were developing.

invisiblecabbage

Optimisticpair wrote: »

I do the slug hunt method. I got 6 the other night when it was damp but it dried up and has been cooler so I only caught 2 yesterday.

Perhaps we should have a thread to record our nightly rummagings:eek:
I wonder who is most proficient?

invisiblecabbage

invisiblecabbage wrote: »

Perhaps we should have a thread to record our nightly rummagings:eek:
I wonder who is most proficient?

Do you think size matters?

angeltreats

DH took some photos of my slug-filled beer traps yesterday before I emptied them, when I dig out the memory card I'll post the photos so you can all point and laugh and the poor dead slugs

ginvzt

Anyone tried nematoides? Slug pellets didn't work for me. I had copper tape around all of my pots, growbags, cane supports last year - still need to stock up this year for the new pots.

But then I al so cleared out some borders to grow flowers and some other vegetables, where copper tape is not going to work.

I remember some mentioning 1p and 2p coins - anyone tried these?...

tamsin1982

meg72 wrote: »

I have never managed in almost 50 years gardening, allotmenting etc managed to beat the little !!!!!!!!!!! pests Put your plants in hanging baskets. Tubs etc. They just love Strawberrys

This is what ive done with my strawberries

not too keen on all this slug talk tho, rather not think about whats crawling over my growing dinner :rotfl:

covlass

Does anyone know if copper wire would work? The thin stuff you can get from craft shops only I thought of getting some and putting it around my Hosta's in the flower beds, my firend uses crushed egg shels but thats a no go as the dogs eat them : (

greytdog_2

i was told that putting dry bran down works as it either deters them or if they eat it it swells inside them and they burst. Havent tried it yet though.

Mankysteve

Get a 9 v battery, a 470 ohme resistor and a high efficiency LED connect them in series.

If you want to protect a bed is to using some plastic conduct create a frame to go around the bed then attach some top hat metal conduct around the top. ie the plastic insulate the metal frame from the ground. Then get a piece of copper pipe/earthing rod stick it into the ground attach the circuit one end to the ground rod the other to the metal conduct.

If you want to protect pots then two bands of aluminium strip with a small gap between them leave a flap of aluminium and attach that to the circuit. The led is there to tell you if there's a short and the resistor to limit the current.