Slug control - The 9-Volt Solution

Keeping slugs out of a raised bed garden using an electric fence. Garder les limaces d'un jardin lit soulevé à l'aide d'une clôture électrique.

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[VonLeachim]

hm, perhaps a solar version now the panelprices are dropping

[nlinventor]

@VonLeachim Maybe worth experimenting with but you will need, of course, a rechargeable battery. The standard 9 volt used here usually lasts the whole growing season and they are pretty cheap these days.

[jerrykeys4]

I wonder if this would keep web worms out of a pecan tree ? I think they have to clime it to make the web.

[nlinventor]

@jerrykeys4 I really don't know, it works with slugs mainly because they are always wet enough to make good electrical contact with the two wires. It would be pretty easy to set-up a tree version of the idea to check it out. Or perhaps you could test the web worm susceptibility using the idea shown in the first part of the video. Let me know if you get around to trying it.

[TheTxturtlelytiger]

lol the guitar sound effects.

[nlinventor]

@HomeworkHelper1 The low voltage (9 volts) along with the wide conductor spacing on the wood (an insulator) ensures that current leakage, even when raining, is minimum. Battery lasts throughout the growing season.

[gymkhanadog]

Seems like this just takes the copper flashing idea to a somewhat "complex" level. If you put a bit of copper flashing around your garden, no power sources, snails won't cross it because as soon as their bodies touch the copper, they get zapped because their bodies kinda become a little battery. Works the same for snails, too!

Hoping I can keep these destructive little bastards out of my garden beds this year. Gonna use copper and alcohol this year.

[nlinventor]

@sirtom68 If you take a look at the last few seconds you will see an equivalent comment to "no slugs harmed in making this movie". And it is true, they are tough little characters.

[AJBiddle7]

@nlinventor Thanks! Sure appreciate you taking the Time!