is copperstrip good for keeping slugs off garden?

Answer 1

Your best bet for slugs is buy "diatomacious" powder from your local lawn & garden store. This powder is made from crushed up seashells and gives the slugs "micro-cuts" which makes them beat a very fast retreat from your garden. Sprinkle around the bases of plants or around the enitire perimeter of your garden. Forget beer in a bowl. They don't fall in and drown, the beer just sits there and rots. And I'm not sure about the copper unless it was electrified... That would definitely keep them away. (not recommended)

Answer 2

Yes, but you have to make sure there aren't any slugs still in the area within the copper strip. Otherwise, you're just corralling slugs.

Try using a beer bait. Fill a bowl or a pie plate with beer and bury it just at the surface then the slugs with go in, become intoxicated and drown. Try this for a few days until you stop seeing slugs then do the copper tape thing. They won't like to go across it because it supposedly gives them a little shock.

Answer 3

Save the lids that you take off of mayo jars, etc. Fill them with beer and put them in the areas where you have trouble with slugs. The slugs love beer, they crawl in, drink, get drunk, and drown! We have used this method for years. The darn things love our hosta plants! Thank God, they love beer more than hosta!!

Answer 4

I don't know about that, but I can tell you there is a fantastically cheap alternative that really works!!!

Its beer - they love it.

Put some beer into a container & put it in a hidden darkish part of the garden, you can put some cabbage or lettuce leaves to further entice them but its not really necessary.

Works for snails too :-))))

Answer 5

I've only had success using them on planters, not on the ground. Plus, the plants have to be some distance from the strip, as snails can extend themselves to reach over the strip and munch away.