Re: Anti Slug and Snail Experiment

"'Mike'" <3d&6d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> Following postings about slugs and snails and copper wire etc., I am 
> performing some experiments which gardeners, (that does not include me,
I 
> am a non gardener, 'her outdoors' is the gardener) might like to follow.
>
> Pictures at http://www.myalbum.com/Album-NSVC6IM7
>
> One of the pictures shows a slug which is reluctant in going over the 
> copper wire.
>
> Other pictures are self explanatory .
>
> The three pots of beans are now under the tender care of 'her outdoors'
in 
> her greenhouse. Once the plants show above the compost, they will be 
> placed in a 'vulnerable' position outdoors where the slugs and snails
seem 
> to frequent.
>
> Watch this space.
>
> Be delighted to answer any questions.
>
> The Cathodic/Electrolytic Action experiment with two dissimilar metals 
> round a pot may follow later.
>
> Mike
> -- 
>


Latest pictures. Complete with slug or snail tracks and a very poorly
plant 
:-(

http://www.myalbum.com/Album-Y8IACPSG

The two smaller plants are in the pots with salt on the double sided
sticky 
tape and the copper ring around the stem

Mike