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Re: Eggshells and rats?

On Wed 17 Jun, Mary McGee Wood wrote:
> 
> The only special advice about eggshells I'd come across before
> is the suggestion that a layer of crushed eggshells on the soil 
> may deter slugs. Not that it's worked for me... perhaps it's
> an organic gardeners' myth? has it worked for anyone else?
> (I've never had a problem with rats though. Now if only one 
> could train rats to eat the slugs!)
> 
> 	best,
> 		Mary
> 		near Manchester, England
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Not eggshells or rats, but I came across information on using copper as
a slug barrier. Apparently they won't or can't cross it, as a chemical
reaction occurs with their slime. I don't know what form this takes but
thought it would be a good system if the price was right. The cheapest
way to do it these days would be to use the bpinted circuit board
offcuts that someone somewhere is probably piling on the scrap heap,
other than that it would be far too expensive. The other idea worth a
try would be to construct a miniature version of an electric fence, that
way we could all have ready fried slugs!
Food for thought!

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Allan Day  Hereford HR2 7AU allan@crwys.demon.co.uk
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