Re: -deter those slugs

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Re: EO's as pesticides

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> Copper wire, beer moats, Diatomaceous Earth

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Adam? please detail for me the Copper wire. Last year I dismantled tore

down etc the house I had lived in for 20 some years. I remain at this same

property, but the old thing had quite wore out. I " kept " all the copper

pipes, etc. I recycled many things from the house but haven't yet passed on

to recycling the copper. I hail from a place that used to have a " slug

festival " for years and unfortunately changed it to the annual blackberry

festival. The Slug festival got the only entry into USA today I've ever

seen for Elma Washington. I use a lot of wood ash from my wood stove, but

this wetness this year has rendered the slugs particularly bountiful.

They're juice is good for a campfire burn and that's the best thing I can

say. They are tenacious. How do you use the copper wire? Detail this one

for me please. I do get relief from slug houses, which is just two pieces

of beveled wood like a roof stapled, nailed, screwed or glued together with

slug bait underneath. The birds/ animals don't bother it, but the slug

harvest is good. copper wire would last a lot longer than the wood ashes

do, and I actually begrudge spending cash on commercial slug bait for the

slug houses.

Patti

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On Jul 8, 2008, at 6:33 PM, Patti Grinds wrote:

> How do you use the copper wire? Detail this one

> for me please.

If you grow in beds simply attach a course of copper wire around each

bed; this however will also keep slugs inside who are already there

so be sure they're slug free first. If you grow in rows, put copper

wire around the things you want to protect (like your nice heads of

broccoli or your tomato plants), like in a square or something.

Gardening stores also sell copper " tape " which works nicely, but

regular old copper wire works fine and is cheaper.