What about snails and metals

[Guest guest]

This year my whole garden was devoted to finding a solution to the slug and

snail problem. Here in England in gardens surrounded by hedges it's a real

problem.

 

The best thing was in fact copper as Carol has said, but you need to have

enough of it such as a tape stuck onto a strip of wood. I caught a glimpse

of a snail going up over the edge of a flower pot on television and there

were two strips of metal, one copper and I couldn't quite catch what the

other was, but the snail just kept going back when the circuit was made by

the snail and it had to go back. However the HDRA sell a copper strip roll

which you can stick onto wood.

 

Beer is good but it has to be fermented and then goes off

vinegar kills them

grease barrier is useless

razor blade barrier is useless - they go straight over,dangerous

razor blade arched barrier to complicated.

mesh arch shaped fence, from Akrura, Germany, with sharp edge is not bad,

but the corners are difficult to make.

putting fresh veg peelings is good but you are forever collecting little

critters.

 

Ducks on a larger scale sounds practical

Copper strip on a smaller scale.