On Thu, 31 May 2007 21:54:23 +0100, "Trefor Jones"
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"MikeCT" wrote in message
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"T i m" wrote:

Maybe these London slugs are just 'ard' ..?
Copper rings now methinks ..

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Hi T i m,
After having most of my potted up seedlings snail savaged, I recently
stripped a few lengths of heavy duty, spare electric cabling. I cut the
exposed copper wire into 2ft. lengths and spiralled each round a few pots
containing those plants still worth saving. To stop the wire from slipping
down each pot, I bent the top of each spiralled wire over the pot rim. The
whole job took me most of one morning last week, but so far, it works!
Not one chewed leaf since. :-))

MikeCT






I had the chimney swept over the winter and the sweep gave me a bucketful of
the gritty soot stuff that came out. He said that it was an excellent
deterrent against snails. I haven't tried it yet - I'm a bit wary of
spreading chimney sweepings all over the garden!
Trefor

Someone told me yesterday to use 'horticultural gravel' (sharper than
yer average gravel apparently) ;-)

I did go into an electrical wholesaler yesterday to get some copper
strip of some sort but they were very busy and I had stuff to do.

My runners and now in the ground (but only 1' tall) and I was
wondering if I could use the 2.5mm copper wire idea but on the ground.
I was thinking of coiling it up round a rod of some sort so it looks
like a long spring (or barbless wire) and then joining it back to
itself in a loop / ring but wondered if they would climb underneath
the 'turns' if they ended up a bit 'open'?

Maybe I could solder a single hoop of wire to the coil top / bottom to
finish it off?

I think I'll try some earthling strip first ;-)

All the best ..

T i m