"Rod" wrote after...
(Steve Harris)
wrote:

I stumbled on this:

http://www.templatenetwork.org/topaz/07/en/13.html

Chocolate and teapot come to mind. Dunno if all that copper has any
deterrent effect on the slugs but the idea of copper tools is mind
boggling, a copper spade *might* survive as long as 15 seconds in our
soil but I doubt it..

I was thinking along the same lines, bent double at the first spade full. To
do what they say how quickly would the Copper tools have to wear out.
Wouldn't it be easier to get some copper swarf or filings from a factory and
chuck it on the soil. What effect does copper in the soil have on plants?
(it's used as a fungicide so what would it do to the soil bacteria etc).
Notice that some expensive bronze tools are being advertised as possibly
slug/snail repellant.
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Regards
Bob
in Runnymede, 17miles west of London, UK