{"id":769,"date":"2014-07-16T08:00:51","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T08:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sharonmurphy.com\/wordpress\/?p=769"},"modified":"2020-07-24T13:26:24","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T12:26:24","slug":"snails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sharonmurphy.com\/wordpress\/2014\/07\/snails\/","title":{"rendered":"The War on Snails"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some low-tech gadgety goodness for the gardeners out there.<\/p>\n

A few years back I experimented a bit with how to deal with slugs and snails in the garden. I planted up two trugs with pak choi and placed them either side of my shed door. I sprinkled organic slug pellets generously on and around one, and banded the other with spiky copper tape, about two-thirds up. Then I waited a few weeks to see how both trugs fared.<\/p>\n

The pics below show the results. Copper tape won by a mile.<\/p>\n

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Pak choi with slug pellets<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Pak choi with copper tape<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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It’s generally pricey stuff (I paid a tenner a roll for mine), but ALDI Ireland are doing rolls for a competitive \u20ac3.49 per roll on Sunday, July 20, 2014<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Another good population control is beer traps throughout the garden. Half fill a water-tight container with your chosen beer, and leave it sitting near whatever plants are suffering most. At a half-day course in the Botanic Gardents a few years back, I was told that ale was the favourite tipple of gastropods, and comparisons in our garden do seem to confirm that.<\/p>\n

Any other solutions working well in your garden? Let me know in the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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