snails

bella165

(ask your local pub to fill an old plastic milk bottle with slops for you)
if you ask them for ale it will make your plants grow bigger,we use the cheap 25p cans from tesco/asda open and dilute with water the plant love it ive been doing it for years now and have grow some really big onions/beets.carrots ect oh and sunflowers

bella165

oh the way the copper wire works is there is a small gap between each peice the slug toches 1 of them it wont huirt them but when both are in contact it gives a small electrical shock causing it to fall off,personly i use crushed egg shells to keep the blighters off and it looks nice aswell

sarah_smurf

bella165 wrote: »

(ask your local pub to fill an old plastic milk bottle with slops for you)
if you ask them for ale it will make your plants grow bigger,we use the cheap 25p cans from tesco/asda open and dilute with water the plant love it ive been doing it for years now and have grow some really big onions/beets.carrots ect oh and sunflowers

Never knew that, I'll remember that when growing my own, not actually tried it yet.

And wonder if the drinking alcohol will make humans grow bigger one day to lol.

elosarabrab

I recently was told to mix salt with vaseline to smear round the rims of plant pots it seems to work cos my tray of lettuce is ok so far

kprice580

I know this is a thread to get rid of snails, But I have a question?

If a snails shell is broken will it grow back????

My son has just crushed one (poor thing!!) but it's still moving/sliding around!

Cheers Katy x x

Pippad

kprice according to the wiki entry on snails;

"Usually a snail can repair damage to its shell over time if its living conditions improve, but severe damage can be fatal."

hth!

kprice580

Pippad

Thank you, I had look a little while ago and I think it dead!!

R.I.P little snail!

Cheers Katy x x

Fallenangel152

Oblivion wrote: »

I'm not sure how or why it works but the slugs crawl up but give up and fall off when they encounter the copper band.

Due to something to do with their slime, copper gives snail and slugs electric shocks - they can't cross the copper tape.

It's aphids i have trouble with! :mad:

hardpressed

What did the slug say to the snail?

Big Issue, mate?

rojomymojo

With regards to the spiders! When I met my better half a few years ago, his mum had bowls of conkers around the house...... I thought she was nuts when she told me they kept the spiders away.... I tried it in my greenhouse and hey presto! Alll of the little blighters soon left!

I also have raised vegetable beds and around the edge have put lenghts of copper piping! Works a treat! :T