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Re: copper snail/slug deterrent

You could try a loop of copper wire too, I guess.

Regards  Ian Gill

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> From: Meconella@aol.com
> To: veggie-list@eskimo.com
> Subject: copper snail/slug deterrent
> Date: Thursday, June 18, 1998 5:36 PM
> 
> In a message dated 6/17/98 2:45:23 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> allan@crwys.demon.co.uk writes:
> 
> << 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.  >>
> 
> If you have access to stain-glass supplies,  there is a very thin copper
tape
> used for copper-foil stain glass technique.  It is about 1/4 inch wide
and has
> an adhesive on the back.  I have thought of using this around the edge of
the
> benches on which I grow my seedlings,  aka the snail salad bar.  I have
tried
> covering them with fine netting,  but the little suckers ate right
through the
> netting leaving leaves with numerous little holes.  Escargot anyone?  I
doubt
> this tape would work on the ground tho.
> 
> Janet.
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