Topic: Copper and Slugs/Snails Questions.

[greenscrump]

hope you find a stash  ;D  Ours came from a friends central heating refit - it protected the lettuces we grew last year too  ;D

[Spookyville]

nice one greenscrump.

still waiting for larkspur to post links to these unbiased tests proving it does not work....

[libby]

followed this thread, and was offered the  copper tape at aldis the other week at £7.99 and refused it, a good few metres, did'nt buy it because i'd heard , and surprised that no one mentioned, that you need to plug a battery on this idea, two strips pos/neg, and the creature will feel the current not when crossing the first, but coming in contant with the second strip, sounds about right that, does it not?

[Spookyville]

i saw the box to what you are referring in Aldi when the gardeners special was on and it does not mention or require a battery connected.

[libby]

Did you buy "n" try? i know it did not mention batteries,that's what is needed

[Spookyville]

as far as I am aware it is similar to copper tape - no battery needed. the "electric shock" that the snail experiences is when they touch the copper....
where did you get the information that a battery was needed? hearsay?

[jennym]

Both options are available - with battery, and without.
Battery type like this: http://www.electricfence-online.co.uk/ishop/1047/shopscr513.html

[Spookyville]

I see. not copper in that case however.

[Hyacinth]

I spent a while yesterday copper-taping a client's raised beds...reckon that if this works I've effectively penned in any of the blighters that are already in the soil :-\

Me, I go the tried-and-tested coffee route.....drench the soil with coffee, slugs and snails get so hyped up they run for miles ;D

[Spookyville]

reckon that if this works I've effectively penned in any of the blighters that are already in the soil :-\

needs nematodes applying inside the enclosed area. with slugs you have the large surface movers and the smaller ones that live in the soil. two pronged attack :)