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European time truly does move much slower. It's been a really long couple of weeks

Do gardeners a favor...connect it to 230volt ac

does this work on open field? when everything rainy and wet? or will the battery drain, or the electricity just go somwhere else?

Same technique for dwarf fruit trees?

This "Buds" for you! Not!!

Double width high quality copper helps when growing from a pot. But when growing directly in the earth, use strong espresso coffee powder...5/5 or 8/10 which ever you can buy and not weaker coffee bean powder. That is the strength that no slug likes.

You may need to renew the tape every year or so as once the surface of the tape becomes discoloured, if find that it is no longer effective.

Hey is there an update?

Wow great video, thank you so much for sharing !!!

No does not work

Use copper mesh - you can staple or nail it on to wood. It’s wider and kind of creates a ‘skirt’. I use a band of copper tape and a ring of copper mesh around the top of my terracotta pots which have hostas in. I also use a little plug of mesh in the holes in the bottom of all my pots to stop them camping out in the crock.

Very well intended but hedgehogs are lactose intolerant, milk gives them terrible stomach issues , I hope you didn’t accidentally kill it with your kindness. Please do some research on what to feed hedgehogs.

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You can buy serrated copper tape here 🇬🇧 If make the serrations stick up a bit they really don't like that. Under the lips of your pots you put Vaseline with salt mixed in. Under the lip the rain isn't going to touch it and it will definitely keep the slugs & snails away.

Do you know that these Metals are full of machineoil? Thats very unhealthy.

Will the setup get shortcircuit due to rain water?

I'm left wondering if copper is a physical or chemical barrier for these marigold pests.

Very useful. Thank you

that's such a cutie patootie dog

Dear @Lilly, wouldn't the battery discharge on the first rain? Plank will be wet, current will flow. Can you please give us an update on this setup? Better alternative? Love from Montréal

Useful. Thank you.

Use copper staples or nails to prevent galvanic corrosion

You could look for plastic U profiles that fit flush around the top rim, stick the copper tape on the profiles (with the seams at the 'inside' of the profile, protect the edges from curling and peeling off/loose): Tadaaaa... a nice copper trim for your planter! 😉

fill the sidewalks with a lot of ash, snails can't cross on it. btw in my greenhouse very small naked slugs can descend from the top window on a mucoid thread like spiderman. that is horrible.

I put a 1" wide copper strip in my garden next to the cabbage. I watched as slug after slug passed over it without even hesitating.

Clean it with lemon juice when it oxidises and it works forever but I prefer beer traps

I’d just drill a plastic boarder all round the veg bed then apply the tape. Tape seems a great deterrent and cruelty free so worth the hassle!!

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What jars are these?

I use copper wire and a battery

Wonderful. Proud of you girl. Men are so into tech building, like they are building a whole house. Simple is wonderful. Love it.

I Have the 2” copper tape and I added it to my garden bed on a dry day. So far they are nice on and I have had a couple rainy days

So annoying when gardens talk with their hands.....reminds me of darts sidious when he's about to produce some lightening

Aluminium tape is cheaper, and once you stick with the electric fence idea you probably do not need copper.

What kind of onions do you plant I would really like to know thank you ❤

Use stainless-steel wire ,coper will degrade over time, like they use for welding on a spool , and stainless steel staples , its a job done for life then.

what if it rains? will it short?

EXCELLENT !!!

This vid has confirmed an idea I've had but I wanted to know how long each 9v battery lasts for. Thanks this vid was simple and very informative. 👍🏿

I was researching effective ways to repel snails and stumbled upon the copper and beer trap method. Thank you for sharing this informative video!

The flies can still get between that mesh. lol. U messed up. hahhaha. U like a little fly larvae with ur fruit? lol

AND it's the first time I'm seeing electricity bring used on slugs! I'm going to use this systems for my strawberries ❤ thanks for the idea Lilly!

what is the diameter of the wire?

Hi if you cut a strip of polythene and stick the copper tape to that and staple it...

I would not use the wire instead. I use the wire more growth.

Thank you. Thus was helpfull. For the tape: 1) use glue (wood) 2) if not use nails 3) use small wooden lines to nail over te edges of the wood so no air can touch it.

slugs can inside your raised bed in the soil

where is the update video if the bee hotel is occupied?

Used to use this on pressure treated wood on the underside of the top rail I mounted. This allowed my mom to sit on the side of the beds comfortably and it also let the tape be hidden and gravity would prevent anything from "arching over" it. It sticks well to dried pressure treated wood.

Nice hotel, and nice legs