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    Would velcro stop slugs?

    Had lunch with my Dad today who used to grow his own veg. He suggested that if I put velcro around the edge of the raised beds it may stop slugs and snails.

    Does anyone think this would work? And what would be the best way to fix it to the wood? I don't think it would stick to wood so should I just nail it on?

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    Only if you sew the opposing piece of velcro to the slugs

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    • #3
      Originally posted by PAULW View Post
      Only if you sew the opposing piece of velcro to the slugs


      nearly a "tea all over keyboard" moment
      Jiving on down to the beach to see the blue and the gray, seems to be all and it's rosy-it's a beautiful day!

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      • #4
        Originally posted by PAULW View Post
        Only if you sew the opposing piece of velcro to the slugs
        Originally posted by King Carrot View Post
        nearly a "tea all over keyboard" moment
        What do you mean,,,"nearly"
        S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig
        a batch of jam is always an act of creation ..Christine Ferber

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        • #5
          thirdeded.... :P
          gives a whole new mental image to sowing....

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          • #6
            Or of course if the slugs had been out on the razz drinking the left over beer and ended up wearing one of those comedy 'afro' wigs.
            Last edited by HeyWayne; 11-03-2010, 08:09 PM.
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            • #7
              Jollity apart, I think it's a reasonable suggestion. Slugs and snails generally opt to avoid 'uncomfortable' surfaces in favour of smooth ones.

              Nail some to your beds and see what happens Rossa, I suspect you may well have the last laugh
              I was feeling part of the scenery
              I walked right out of the machinery
              My heart going boom boom boom
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              • #8
                My OH can't understand why I am laughing! I have this crazy image of slugs with velcro on their bellies.

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                • #9
                  I found some slugs the other day..(edit: I thought it'd be too cold for them?) whilst I was putting up some supports to eventually get some wire running along the house wall to train bushes up.

                  I just hammered them into the ground.

                  Felt a bit like timmy mallet.
                  Last edited by chris; 11-03-2010, 09:33 PM.

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by PAULW View Post
                    Only if you sew the opposing piece of velcro to the slugs
                    ROFL...what would Dr Dolittle say

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Rossa View Post
                      ROFL...what would Dr Dolittle say
                      Dunno, but it would probably be in Sluggish.
                      A simple dude trying to grow veg. http://haywayne.blogspot.com/

                      BLOG UPDATED! http://haywayne.blogspot.com/2012/01...ar-demand.html 30/01/2012

                      Practise makes us a little better, it doesn't make us perfect.

                      What would Vedder do?

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                      • #12
                        I was waiting for Wayne's gem on this subject.

                        Okay... sniggering aside...I'm with Seahorse here ...give it a go! I'd try a staple gun to attach it. (to the beds not the molluscs) I imagine it will work out quite costly so a smallish trial before the major out lay might be shrewd.

                        Of course the real brainteaser will be to find some thing to do with the yards of the furry side you'll have left..... Don't worry they laughed at many of the great innovators of the past.

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                        • #13
                          I would suggest carpet gripper but you'd have to watch where you put your hands.
                          Last edited by binley100; 12-03-2010, 11:39 AM.
                          S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig
                          a batch of jam is always an act of creation ..Christine Ferber

                          You can't beat a bit of garden porn

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                          • #14
                            If you stuck the furry side to the slugs you could stick them half way up a wall where they couldn't do any harm? Or did I dream that?
                            Whoever plants a garden believes in the future.

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                            • #15
                              ....like a bit of wall art. Make a change from those huge butterflies you see
                              S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig
                              a batch of jam is always an act of creation ..Christine Ferber

                              You can't beat a bit of garden porn

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