Copper Anti Slug and Snail Rings

 

I have some old scrap cable under the bench somewhere. Thought I would give
it a try on making some rings/hoops and putting them round the plants as
they come up :-)

Could try to be clever ;-) and put two rings round, one inside the other
about 1 Centimetre apart, but one made of tinned copper wire, then, when the
slug/snail goes over it, there just might be an Electric Current formed by
virtue of two dissimilar metals thus we have our own little Cathodic
Protection system ;-)

Watch this space

Mike

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"'Mike'" wrote

The ground is going to have to be very flat for those to work Mike, usually
they are copper rings made out of strip copper, a bit like a large pastry
cutter, so one side can be pushed into the soil so the little blighters
can't crawl under. Of course none of them work for those slugs that live
underground.

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Regards
Bob Hobden

 





Got some copper pipe I could flatten on the Anvil :-))

Mike


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www.rneba.org.uk. The Royal Naval Electrical Branch Association.
'THE' Association to find your ex-Greenie mess mates.

 



You can tell Mikes background!

I would have thought it was worth a try, true the commerialy made slug rings
are fairly deep, but on the other hand, the adverts for bronze garden tools
say that the minute amount of copper that ends up in the ground acts as a
slug dererent, so who knows.

Slugs are not too much of a problem for me (Wirral, well drained sandy
soil), touch wood, but where i used to live, only three miles away they were
a disaster.


John

 



If that were true slug deterrance would be easy by watering in a soluble
copper salt.
Mary