EVG 20mm x 25m Copper Slug Tape | Adhesive Copper Slug Snail Repellent | Slug Deterrent Barrier Tape | Humane Pest Control

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The copper works in the garden, so I suspect there is a reaction between the copper and the soil that can cause the copper to charge up to shock the slug. I am also experimenting with rolling the mesh loosely around the base of some of my younger fruit trees. Something drank my beer last night and must have eaten the trapped slugs as well, nothing in the trap, but my petunias were in tatters. My older planters have 6 month old copper mesh barriers and I have yet to notice any obvious decrease in effectiveness with oxidation/dirt, but if there down the road maybe I can mitigate it with a firm wire brush scrub. My criticism of your comments on ‘Electrical current’ as it related to the use of copper is that it represented a deductive approach not an empirical one.

Copper scrip is expensive, I haven’t purchased any more even though I know it works under the right conditions.I suggest that people who say one or another methods works, should actually go out into the garden for several nights (wet and dry) to see how many slugs there are and how many get past the trap before claiming it works based on one test or saying that it ‘seems’ to have a effect. After tending to the crop for weeks Hayley harvested the lettuces and removed the leaves one by one.

If you’re using any of these five home remedies to deter slugs and snails, consider carefully whether they are making enough difference to be worth the investment. May I suggest that the natural iron in the soil would provide the anode for the production of a small electric current to occur. Nematodes are microscopic parasitic worms that feed upon molluscs but also risk killing non-pest garden species such as water snails. And as for using beer, they loved it, but there were times during very hot days that the rotting corpses of the slugs in the beer stank.People and inverts are different 😉 the copper pipe that gives us safe tap water will wipe out the invertebrates in my aquarium. HI Lee, I was thinking the same, but then reading it again I think the percentage of copper alloy is still the problem with test 4?

I use pallet collars as raised beds for my vegetable crops and slugs used to hike up the collars to get at the salad crops.Because I have the rings already I use them and they work well but only for a couple of days, until they oxidise. Regardless of the use of copper strips or electricity, some types of slugs have been know to drop down from overhanging trees or even lower themselves down a slime trail. This self adhesive copper tape can be wrapped around the rim or base of the pot creating a physical barrier slugs will not cross.

Copper Slug Tape stops slugs and other gastropods in their tracks by providing a barrier to plants and crops. I invested in some adhesive copper strips (before reading this post) and conducted my own test this morning – with dew all over the copper strip. I’m using some right now – just got to double up/cover the line of holes that the scaffold poles would go through – so much cheaper. I could take the setup to the nth degree by using a solar charged battery but frankly its less hassle for me just to use a cheap own brand 9V battery. Regardless of exactly why it works, I would recommend copper mesh to anyone with a slug problem amenable to a physical barrier who isn’t too concerned about the aesthetics.I have yet to try using any other type of mesh (steel, aluminum) but if I get bored that might be a fun experiment.