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One of my good friend's (dear Leslie!) just gave me her secret for growing items like lettuce, etc without slugs. She takes a kiddie pool - the hard plastic kind - it has a little plastic lip on it. She drills 10-15 small holes for drainage, and fills it with soil and plants lettuce, etc in it. The slugs can not seem to navigate the lip. (Plus she says she can take her garden bench out and work pulling weeds at 15".)
This was one of those DUH it is so simple ideas so I had to share it!
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What a great idea! Thanks for sharing your friend's 'secret'! ;-)
aloha, Liz
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Ahhh, good idea. We have those 25 gal. black planters from Greenhouse Specialists...now I love the size of the pots, but somehow those damned slugs make it around that huge lip on the pot...Leslie is the garden queen for sure!
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Unless you are sure, please do not depend on this. One of the things semi-slugs, the mollusks most infected by rat lung worm, love is plastic. They will have no problem navigating anything plastic and they will not have any problem with a lip. Cuban slugs and other snails and slugs may have a problem with that set up. Just my observations. If you do anything, look for semi-slug poop = usually a half circle of black. And look for slime.
Please be careful. You do not want to get rat lung worm.
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Please consider placing a band of copper flashing around the tub. Twenty foot rolls like this
http://www.drillspot.com/products/274737...r_Flashing
are available relatively inexpensively at Home Depot and Loews as well as other building supply shops or online. The copper in these rolls is soft, so an eight-inch wide roll could easily be cut in half, thirds, or quarters to make 20' strips which are 4", 2.6", or 2" wide.
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Carrie, stop by if you want some copper wire, We have!
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I have heard from others, though not had first hand experience of, that copper wire or bands are not very effective against semi-slugs. As soon as the copper stops corroding, which is pretty soon here because of the salt and acid rain effect, they are pretty useless.
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I have heard from others, though not had first hand experience of, that copper wire or bands are not very effective against semi-slugs. As soon as the copper starts corroding, which is pretty soon here because of the salt and acid rain effect, they are pretty useless. Anybody heard otherwise?
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To follow a garden blog on copper, inc. cleaning corrosion with tomato juice:
http://www.gardenalley.com/Anti-Slug-and...460--5.htm
State Science Fair Experiments
http://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fa...?from=Home
Experiment where corrosion on copper remained a barrier:
http://www.usc.edu/CSSF/History/2004/Projects/J1920.pdf
Idea using pennies for a barrier
http://newworldgeek.com/?p=469
Copper sulfate is used as a slug-icide - I wonder if vog corrosion of copper results in any copper sulfates?
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Home Depot does not carry the copper tape locally. I bought the 2" tape from the Pahoa hardware store.
