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Slut Tape: where can I get some
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| Tom Gardner 2006-05-27, 7:21 am |
| Years ago I used a product called "Slug Tape" (IIRC)
to minimise the slugs and snails had on my plants.
(N.B. it isn't the adhesive copper tape.)
I can't find any now, and I'm wondering where I can
get it.
Slug Tape was a 1cm wide strip of paper impregnated
with metaldehyde. When layed across a "slug highway",
it was extremely effective at preventing them getting
near my plants. Alternatively, putting a loop around
a stem protected that individual plants. It was
effective for a surprisingly long time, surviving
several showers or a burst of heavy rain. Since it
was paper, birds etc didn't eat it, unlike the blue
granules.
Currently I'm making an alternative by painting a
thick metaldehyde paste onto toilet roll cardboard
types. It works, but I'm lazy.
So does anybody know
- who made it?
- where I can get some from?
- any alternatives?
Thanks!
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| Paul Corfield 2006-05-27, 8:21 am |
| On Sat, 27 May 2006 10:01:54 GMT, Tom Gardner <tggzzz@-blueyonder.co.uk>
wrote:
>Years ago I used a product called "Slug Tape" (IIRC)
>to minimise the slugs and snails had on my plants.
>(N.B. it isn't the adhesive copper tape.)
I was a little concerned about the post title but you've now clarified
that ;-)
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Paul C
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| Brian Watson 2006-05-27, 8:21 am |
| Basildon.
Next question?
--
Brian
"Fight like the Devil, die like a gentleman."
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| Chris Hogg 2006-05-27, 4:21 pm |
| On Sat, 27 May 2006 10:01:54 GMT, Tom Gardner
<tggzzz@-blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>Years ago I used a product called "Slug Tape" (IIRC)
>to minimise the slugs and snails had on my plants.
>(N.B. it isn't the adhesive copper tape.)
>
>I can't find any now, and I'm wondering where I can
>get it.
>
>Slug Tape was a 1cm wide strip of paper impregnated
>with metaldehyde. When layed across a "slug highway",
>it was extremely effective at preventing them getting
>near my plants. Alternatively, putting a loop around
>a stem protected that individual plants. It was
>effective for a surprisingly long time, surviving
>several showers or a burst of heavy rain. Since it
>was paper, birds etc didn't eat it, unlike the blue
>granules.
>
>Currently I'm making an alternative by painting a
>thick metaldehyde paste onto toilet roll cardboard
>types. It works, but I'm lazy.
>
>So does anybody know
> - who made it?
> - where I can get some from?
> - any alternatives?
>
>Thanks!
>
>
Can't help, but where do you get your metaldehyde?
--
Chris
E-mail: christopher[dot]hogg[at]virgin[dot]net
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| Tom Gardner 2006-05-27, 5:21 pm |
| Paul Corfield <aooy65@dsl.pipex.com> wrote in
news:s4ag72t2dvsabgl7e53bre3jge2g77vlpk@4ax.com:
> On Sat, 27 May 2006 10:01:54 GMT, Tom Gardner <tggzzz@-blueyonder.co.uk>
> wrote:
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> I was a little concerned about the post title but you've now clarified
> that ;-)
Ah. I see what you mean.
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| Tom Gardner 2006-05-27, 6:21 pm |
| "Brian Watson" <WACCI_inf@hotmail.com> wrote in
news:4dqov7F1an1eeU1@individual.net:
> Basildon.
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> Next question?
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North south east or west, and distance?
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| Brian Watson 2006-05-28, 5:21 am |
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"Tom Gardner" <tggzzz@-blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
news:Xns97D0D90B4D0F5tggzzzmadasafishcom@194.117.143.53...
> "Brian Watson" <WACCI_inf@hotmail.com> wrote in
> news:4dqov7F1an1eeU1@individual.net:
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> North south east or west, and distance?
The one nearest Laindon.
--
Brian
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| Tom Gardner 2006-05-28, 3:21 pm |
| Chris Hogg <me@privacy.net> wrote in
news:a16h72ljsc5c1r7il0lbmhlvp4afttm89c@4ax.com:
> Can't help, but where do you get your metaldehyde?
Scotts Liquid Concentrate "Slug Clear", which
is 20% metaldehyde. I got it from a local garden
centre a few years ago.
Presumably an alternative would be firelighters,
but I haven't looked to see what would be a
suitable solvent.
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