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This fence has a curl - shaped cross - section and is made from plastics or wood.
In the convex part of the curl, you put sand, salt or commercial slug repellent.
A slug creeps in, up the curl and into the convex part where it is either repelled or killed, depending on the filling.
The advantages
over normal fences are:
1. It looks unusual and original.
2. The filling keeps dry. All conventional anti - slug measures do not work when wet, which limits their usefulness in practice.
3. Snails can not creep over it, while they can overcome most other obstacles.
The fence has a portion extending into the ground, to keep slugs from burrowing through, of course.
A sketch of my idea
http://i76.photobuc...s/Schneckenzaun.jpg
A quick sketch of this fence I did in Paint [Saruman, Jun 03 2006]
Now look what you've started... Over there ->
The_20other_20Spiral_20Slug_20Stopper
[normzone, Jun 04 2006, last modified Jun 21 2006]
Second picture down
http://www.gsgroup.co.za/03fn.html
[normzone, Jun 21 2006]
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Nothing, as long as they keep out of my salad. This is why this fence can be loaded with non-lethal stuff such as sand (they can not crawl over it, so they turn back) or slug repellent. |
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could the slug "rear up" and stick onto the thing above the gap? |
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I welcome ways to prevent these critters from eating my plants, but with a title like this, this idea should be for a novel form of bullet-proof vest - as a matter of fact, off to post. |
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Copper has been shown to be an effective all-weather repellant. They're making all kinds of products out of it. Still, the fence looks kind of cool, and could hold other pesticides, adhesives, and whatnot. |
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I notice that slugs can go the opposite way, by falling off the overhang. You can export your slugs to the neigbours. |
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Slugs can't crawl across sand? |
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Not very well - see link. |
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