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Re: Electric slug fence;summary


On Fri, 3 Jul 1998 07:02:08 +0100 (BST) Allan Day
<allan@crwys.demon.co.uk> writes:
>So where are we now on this saga?
>To summarise
>* The principle probably works, if Stan would come off the (electric 
>or
>otherwise) fence and say whether he actually has tried it on slugs.
>* It is clearly non-polluting
>* Stan has come up with a low price way of
>doing it.
>* Any ground slugs can get under the barrier if it is on the ground.
>* Any slugs already inside are fine as long as they stay clear
>of the fence
>* Any slugs which get deaded could short it out. This suggests a
>deterrent shock could be better than a killer.
>
>
>* I desparately need to do something about slugs. Bait doesn't always
>work eg when the slugs have already got inside the cabbages, and the
>environmentalists don't like it. Hand picking at night is impossible, 
>I
>am only there during the day. If you put a mesh cover over the plants
>you exclude birds and hedgehogs. The best hope seems to be to have a
>copper barrier (non-electric) and clear inside it before planting the
>crop, but cost is the main problem. I haven't tried nematode control 
>but
>that seems expensive and temporary.
>
>-- 
>Allan Day  Hereford HR2 7AU allan@crwys.demon.co.uk
>
>
Allan.
     Remember slot cars.  I don't know if they were such a
big thing back in the 60's in the UK as they were in the States,
but they used to make a copper foil, self adhesive strip that
you could use to make your own slot car track.  The top of
the copper strip had no coating on it so that the slot cars could
make good electrical contact with it. 
     Perhaps this may be a non-electrical deterrent to your slug
problem.  I have no idea if they still manufacture this stuff or
how much it costs but
searching the net may turn up something, or provide leads to
other areas of copper.  
     Just a thought.

Stan            the cheap and lazy gardener

P.S.  I don't have regular access to the internet.  

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