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Re: Electric slug fence;summary

ROSS E STANFORD tapped the keys thusly:
>...Seems
>so far that there is no conscientious one  way or the other whether
>a strip of copper is a barrier that slugs and snails won't cross, at
>least from anyone who has done this themselves, not just "heard" that it
>works.  Since
>I don't have any snails or slugs in my area, I can't do the experiment.
>
>     Stan       the cheap and lazy gardener.
>
>P.S.  I guess a good experiment might be to build a little
>"slug corral" out of flat copper and put a slug inside.  See if he (or
>she, or whatever) (no I am not willing to find out!), WON'T go over the
>copper
>or CAN'T go over the copper.  
>     Either way, I WANT VIDEOS!

HIYAs,

Michelle's hubby here, so please forgive me if this particular solution 
already came up. I've never even heard of the ol copper barrier trick to 
keep out slugs. But every summer my Mom used to ship me off to the 
relatives up in NH. My Uncle was quite the farmer. (He had a huge 
cornfield and another acre to play with as his garden.) The duty of 
cleaning out the slugs fell to my cousin and I every morning. We'd go out 
right after breakfast every morning and dump all the slugs out into the 
trash after they'd spent the entire night drinking themselves to death in 
little capfulls of beer. We'd refill all the caps (they had quite an 
array of them surrounding the garden's perimeter) and then and only then 
would be allowed to go play.

Alas, I ain't got no home videos of the slug dumping variety, but you can 
take my word for it. :)

Gareth

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