copper tape & slugs/snails....

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courgette

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copper tape & slugs/snails....
« on: March 12, 2008, 11:25 »
does it work?....bit of a lazy question  :oops: ....if it is something that has worked for you, do you think it would it work if i basically taped round the whole flower bed?!  :?

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« Reply #1 on: March 12, 2008, 11:41 »
It is rather for pots, also expensive.
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Re: copper tape & slugs/snails....
« Reply #2 on: March 12, 2008, 16:30 »
Quote from: "courgette"
does it work?....
Didn`t work for me but there again we get double the amount of rain of anywhere else.]

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« Reply #3 on: March 27, 2008, 19:25 »
It works brilliantly on pots, my boyfriend's mum swears by it!  Her pot grown lettuces were 100% slug free when she used it last year... although that might just be because they were full after eating pretty much everything else in the garden.

Don't reckon it would work for anything planted in soil, because surely the slugs would just slime their way under it, the dratted things! :twisted:

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« Reply #4 on: March 27, 2008, 21:02 »
Was wondering if you cut strips of the "Green Pot Scourers" that you can buy for washing up, that maybe the slugs and snails would really HATE sliding over that!   Used cut up copper pipe last year, quite effective but if a leaf grows outside the 'copper' area the slug is quick to find it and gain entry that way!!!   But guess that goes for the pot scourers too.


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