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Originally Posted by Moontanman
I used to be into ferns in a big way, one of the problems I had was slugs eating the tender fiddle heads. I had several birds nest ferns that had stalks five feet high and leaves that spread out over four feet. It took me many years to grow them this way and the secret was slug control. The large pots I grew them in were an easy avenue for slugs to climb up and eat the center of the fern. i fixed their wagon by bending a copper wire around the pot about halfway up. Slugs cannot crawl across a copper wire due to a chemical reaction with the slugs body slime. Could you use this to repel the slugs? There are also pellets that slugs will eat that kill them.
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Whoopi
I am on my way to the local recycler to find copper wiring. Also I will call a young man I know who is a scavenger, plundering the copper from thrown away appliances in local neighborhoods. This is the most hopeful I felt in days.
It will also shoot my community garden prestige sky high if I demonstrate the solution to slug control. Whoaho, I like that.
