Comment by 🐦 JustASillyBird

Re: "Is something eating your plants?"

In: s/farming

I had trouble with snails, so I ran two strips of copper tape around the planters and put a few volts across those from a solar trickle-charged battery. Worked great. The world's tiniest electric fence - no snail would cross. It lasted for a year before the tape corroded, so if I built it again I'd use something more durable.

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Mar 01 · 2 months ago

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🐦 JustASillyBird · Mar 01 at 19:20:

And I won't be building it again, because saving my lettuce from the snails just left more for the leaf miners!

Only one pest is allowed to eat my lettuce: Me.

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☯️ dragfyre:

Is something eating your plants? — Love the heck out of this. "If something is not eating your plants, then your garden is not part of the ecosystem." (links in post)

💬 5 comments · 2 likes · 2024-10-30 · 2 years ago