Copper rods for slugs/snails?

Question

I've heard that one can use copper rods as an effective deterrent for slugs and snails.This sounds like a good non pesticide option.Has anyone heard of/used these successfully and are they freely available?

Answer 1

i've used bare copper wire successfully to reduce the swarms of snails that populate my ivy, beside the front door and path.

on dark nights, it was crunch, crunch, crunch as i trod on snails, before i laid a bare copper wire alongside the path. i very rarely see a snail now. copper is also a poison for moss, algae etc.

Answer 2

Nobody I know wastes the money and no one I know has found the copper to be much of a deterrent. The stale beer in a bowl gathers and kills as many slugs as anything that I know of. Also if you lay a wet board down in your garden and come out the next morning and turn the board over, many slugs will be present. You can bake them in the sun or dispose of them by whatever method you choose. Also it is more effective to put collars around your plants. I also use the tops of dried thistle plants. I place these spiky heads all around in the garden. These knocked off most of the slugs. Just make sure the thistle heads have had all the seeds knocked out of them and are really dry. The spikes puncture their bodies and you dont even have to remove them. They just dry up.

Answer 3

Any coper wire will do. It creates electrical shocks when slugs and snails contact it which deters them from further progress.

Answer 4

vasoline is supose to work ..put it on the stems of your plants