"'Mike'" wrote after "Bob Hobden" replied to "'Mike'"
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

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.


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


If you could split it lengthways first so it's twice the depth, even better.
I too have quite a bit of copper pipe in the garage so I'll try the metal
cutting disc on the angle grinder... should work.

BTW our Hostas that have had the benefit of coffee grounds are still OK but
the clump that had nothing have already been devastated.
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Regards
Bob Hobden