"Snooze" wrote in message
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"Gareee©" wrote in message
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"Mary kate" wrote in message
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Place a penny about one every foot around your pond....it's an old
trick
learned with doing flower beds :-) It works great.

What does that do?


The copper on the pennies reacts with the mucus that the snails & slugs
secrete. The reaction creates a slight electrical current, strong enough
to
discourage them from crossing the copper. But more then likely, they'll
just
go around the penny. A thin copper wire laid around the perimeter of the
pond or flower bed would work just as well. As long as there are no snails
&
slugs on the inside of the enclosed wired off area.

Rose gardeners will often wrap copper wire or copper tape around the base
of
the rose canes to prevent snails from climbing up.

Forgive me...but this sounds like folklore. I checked around google, and it
seems to be common knowledge! How strange! Don't you need two types of metal
to create a current? Weird. You learn something every day. Anyway, I am off
to collect slugs. I plan to power my pump with them and some pennies.

BV.