new idea for barrier to stop slugs
my neighbour says if i put my 'slug chewed' plant in a pot and then stand
the pot in a saucer and smear the saucer edge with Vaseline, the slugs wont cross over the vaseline. any truth in this please? or any other recommendations of what arrangement to stand the pot in please? thanks |
new idea for barrier to stop slugs
"jww" wrote in message ... my neighbour says if i put my 'slug chewed' plant in a pot and then stand the pot in a saucer and smear the saucer edge with Vaseline, the slugs wont cross over the vaseline. any truth in this please? or any other recommendations of what arrangement to stand the pot in please? thanks ummmm........a sprinkling of slug pellets. |
new idea for barrier to stop slugs
"jww" wrote in message ... my neighbour says if i put my 'slug chewed' plant in a pot and then stand the pot in a saucer and smear the saucer edge with Vaseline, the slugs wont cross over the vaseline. any truth in this please? or any other recommendations of what arrangement to stand the pot in please? thanks No idea about that but I saw the copper ring barrier advertised in an unsolicited brochure we received. Spouse uses copper sheet to make lanterns so I asked him to make me a few such rings just to see what would happen. He was very sceptical (I was a little too) but did make some. I transplanted lettuce seedlings into the greenhouse border using six rings (one on each plant). Slugs have been a terrible scourge of lettuce in the past, this time the plants haven't been touched and they're thriving. I planted some tiny brassica seedlings in the open, using the rings. They haven't been touched. I put some rings round the already growing - and slug eaten - runner beans. They have recovered and there's no more slug damage. I used them on small tomato seedlings, they weren't touched. When the plants got to 8" I removed the rings and used them on other plants. There are plenty of slug trails round all these sites. I'm convinced, more importantly so is Spouse. He's ordering another sheet of copper tomorrow without being asked. The rings will last more than a human lifetime and will stack for storage. They are no danger to any animals or birds, unlike pellets (which we won't use anyway, growing our vegetables organically and having free range bantams). When they're new and shiny they look attractive, as they dull they are almost invisible - he made some from old copper cylinders to start with. I wouldn't buy any though - they're very expensive and we might not have enough life left to make them worthwhile. Younger people would benefit from them but copper is easy to cut so you could make your own. HTH Mary Mary |
new idea for barrier to stop slugs
Mary Fisher wrote:
Spouse uses copper sheet to make lanterns so I asked him to make me a few such rings just to see what would happen. He was very sceptical (I was a little too) but did make some. --snip-- I wouldn't buy any though - they're very expensive and we might not have enough life left to make them worthwhile. Younger people would benefit from them but copper is easy to cut so you could make your own. Where can one buy copper sheet? And is it just copper they don't like? Would using, say, galvanised metal windowboxes or containers also deter slugs? And does it work for snails too? I've long been thinking of planting some hostas in galvanised containers but it's Snail City here so I don't know if they'd last long. -- Sue Pendragon Hamstery Portsmouth, Hampshire UK --http://www.pendragonhams.com-- |
new idea for barrier to stop slugs
Where can one buy copper sheet? Go to your Electrical Wholesalers and ask for Copper Earth Bonding Strip :-)) Comes in reels about half and inch wide :-)) Used miles of it .................... for Earth Bonding ;-)) You 'can' cut it with a pair of sturdy Kitchen Scissors, BUT, it is better done with a pair of Tin Snips, these won't cost you an arm and a leg at B&Q :-)) Mike -- ------------------------------------------------ Royal Naval Electrical Branch Association www.rnshipmates.co.uk International Festival of the Sea 28th June - 1st July 2007 |
new idea for barrier to stop slugs
"EastneyEnder" wrote in message ... Mary Fisher wrote: Spouse uses copper sheet to make lanterns so I asked him to make me a few such rings just to see what would happen. He was very sceptical (I was a little too) but did make some. --snip-- I wouldn't buy any though - they're very expensive and we might not have enough life left to make them worthwhile. Younger people would benefit from them but copper is easy to cut so you could make your own. Where can one buy copper sheet? On our case from And is it just copper they don't like? Would using, say, galvanised metal windowboxes or containers also deter slugs? And does it work for snails too? I've long been thinking of planting some hostas in galvanised containers but it's Snail City here so I don't know if they'd last long. -- Sue Pendragon Hamstery Portsmouth, Hampshire UK --http://www.pendragonhams.com-- |
new idea for barrier to stop slugs
"EastneyEnder" wrote in message ... Where can one buy copper sheet? In our case from Smiths Metals http://www.smithmetal.com/smc/products/copper.htm And is it just copper they don't like? I think so. Brass might work but it's harder to cut and bend into circles. ...And does it work for snails too? Yes. I've long been thinking of planting some hostas in galvanised containers but it's Snail City here so I don't know if they'd last long. A very large sheet, 2.4 x 1m, cost £164.51 a couple of months ago. That's expensive but it would make a lot of rings - and the cost could be shared with neighbours or a gardening club. Mike's idea - Earth bonding strip - would be good but you need about 3" depth to ensure that you can bury about 1/2" in the soil and there's no risk of leaves overhanging. Mary |
new idea for barrier to stop slugs
Mike's idea - Earth bonding strip - would be good but you need about 3" depth to ensure that you can bury about 1/2" in the soil and there's no risk of leaves overhanging. Mary Didn't realise you required that depth, BUT, about a thousand years ago when I was in Shipbuilding, the Wireless Offices were 'ringed' with a copper strip about such dimensions, in order that all Radio equipment could be 'grounded' ie earthed. The half inch strip was taken from each piece of Radio equipment to this massive strip. THEREFORE, this strip must still be available :-)) And Off Topic now, if anyone wants to see an Radio Room of such a 'fit out', the H.M.S.Collingwood Museum at Fareham near Portsmouth, has just a set up. (Actually the Radio Room of H.M.S.Resource) For access you need to talk to Lt Cdr W. Legg, 'Bill'. Mention my name by all means :-)) Mike (Crowe that is) -- ------------------------------------------------ Royal Naval Electrical Branch Association www.rnshipmates.co.uk International Festival of the Sea 28th June - 1st July 2007 |
new idea for barrier to stop slugs
jww wrote in message ... my neighbour says if i put my 'slug chewed' plant in a pot and then stand the pot in a saucer and smear the saucer edge with Vaseline, the slugs wont cross over the vaseline. any truth in this please? or any other recommendations of what arrangement to stand the pot in please? thanks either copper strip or if you have a QD shop near you, they sell crushed seashells which you sprinkle around the plants which slugs don't like to cross cos the shards poke them in their little sluggy tummies. |
new idea for barrier to stop slugs
"Mike" wrote in message ... Didn't realise you required that depth, BUT, about a thousand years ago when I was in Shipbuilding, the Wireless Offices were 'ringed' with a copper strip about such dimensions, in order that all Radio equipment could be 'grounded' ie earthed. The half inch strip was taken from each piece of Radio equipment to this massive strip. THEREFORE, this strip must still be available :-)) I didn't suggest that it wasn't, did I? :-) Mary |
new idea for barrier to stop slugs
"fenwoman" wrote in message ... jww wrote in message ... my neighbour says if i put my 'slug chewed' plant in a pot and then stand the pot in a saucer and smear the saucer edge with Vaseline, the slugs wont cross over the vaseline. any truth in this please? or any other recommendations of what arrangement to stand the pot in please? thanks either copper strip or if you have a QD shop near you, they sell crushed seashells which you sprinkle around the plants which slugs don't like to cross cos the shards poke them in their little sluggy tummies. I tried that, it didn't work. I have a large source of crushed eggshells which are sometimes suggested, they didn't work either. Mary |
new idea for barrier to stop slugs
Mary Fisher wrote:
"fenwoman" wrote in message ... jww wrote in message ... my neighbour says if i put my 'slug chewed' plant in a pot and then stand the pot in a saucer and smear the saucer edge with Vaseline, the slugs wont cross over the vaseline. any truth in this please? or any other recommendations of what arrangement to stand the pot in please? thanks either copper strip or if you have a QD shop near you, they sell crushed seashells which you sprinkle around the plants which slugs don't like to cross cos the shards poke them in their little sluggy tummies. I tried that, it didn't work. Bugger. Piles of shells on the beach a few mins walk from me :-( -- Sue Pendragon Hamstery Portsmouth, Hampshire UK --http://www.pendragonhams.com-- |
new idea for barrier to stop slugs
I didn't suggest that it wasn't, did I? :-) Mary Don't think you did, but I haven't seen it since all those years ago, BUT, I have been out of that class of shipbuilding for a very long time. The sort I have been doing over the last 20 years has been fast ferries and the 'wireless office' on those is a corner of the bridge :-)) Mike -- ------------------------------------------------ Royal Naval Electrical Branch Association www.rnshipmates.co.uk International Festival of the Sea 28th June - 1st July 2007 |
new idea for barrier to stop slugs
"EastneyEnder" wrote in message news:C0B22FE8.14120% either copper strip or if you have a QD shop near you, they sell crushed seashells which you sprinkle around the plants which slugs don't like to cross cos the shards poke them in their little sluggy tummies. I tried that, it didn't work. Bugger. Piles of shells on the beach a few mins walk from me :-( I'm not saying you shouldn't try it. Perhaps Leeds slugs have hardier tummies than Hampshire ones. We are in Yorkshire after all .. :-) -- Sue Pendragon Hamstery Portsmouth, Hampshire UK --http://www.pendragonhams.com-- |
new idea for barrier to stop slugs
"jww" wrote in message ... my neighbour says if i put my 'slug chewed' plant in a pot and then stand the pot in a saucer and smear the saucer edge with Vaseline, the slugs wont cross over the vaseline. any truth in this please? or any other recommendations of what arrangement to stand the pot in please? thanks I had correspondence some time ago (October 2005) about this - I'd forgotten about it. Mary: Something else we experimented with this year which proved successful on containers is a double metallic strip, one of copper and one of aluminium foil with a small gap separating them. We were growing sugar snap peas in wooden boxes and put the double tape around one box and not the other. The pea plants in the box without tape disappeared quite quickly, those in the other box thrived (the boxes were next to each other). That's very interesting - but it wouldn't work if crops were grown in the open ground, would it? As someone else pointed out, they live underground as well as crawling over the surface. No, it only works on containers where they have to crawl over the double metallic strip to get at the plants. I thought it might also work for Paul's problem, if they had to crawl over the window cill to get to the glass. ... The only problem is that we have not found anywhere to buy aluminium foil tape and so had to make our own from aluminium kitchen foil cut into strips and stuck to double sided sticky tape. |
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