Hello, This is Survival Lilly's second channel, which is about gardening skills. On this channel you will find videos about gardening, permaculture and other interesting food production techniques. The aim of this channel is to get people interesting in becoming self reliant by producing their own food.
Good ideas, Lilly. I too had this idea but have never yet got around to it. But what I wondered was whether there wound be a market for waterproof rolls of tape, with twin conducting lines already attached or better still imprinted 🤔 Don’t know if anyone makes these🤔 Copper often tarnishes eventually. Maybe a non-tarnishing plating? More expensive but might last for many many years Maybe also, solar powered with battery charged for nights. And s Beds could be connected one to another to another such that one power pack could cover several beds
I have just now ‘unsaved’ most of the other pruning videos I had kept ! Your combined explanation and demonstrative videography are very clear indeed👏👏👍
Ok this is old now but hay ho, what you could do to get the tape to stick to the wood is go to the pound shop get a bottle of PVA glue use a brush and paint a layer of the glue around the area you want the tape to stick, wait till the glue is dry it is a wood glue so will leave a protective coating that is plastic type, then stick the copper tape to surface of the glue. The glue will provide the surface for the tape to stick to.
Have you tried catching snails with a low pan filled with beer? Snails love beer, at least in the states-usa just put it out at night, after a few hours your pan will be full!
For the electrical version - you can also use cheaper thicker galvanised steel wire - all that matters is that it’s conductive 😊 it will also corrode much less than the copper
How have you arranged the copper wire & battery? Have you laid out 2 in parallel being careful they don't touch? Obviously you can't simply wire the battery to both ends of wire or tape or it'll short & flatten battery. Another variation - carefully lay out a wire parallel to & below copper tape & connect a terminal to each.
I am relieved that it seems to be working for you, even though it looks like it hasn't for some. I'm going to get some waterproof copper tape to put at the base of my new rotary clothes line. I also saw a slug on my bungalow bedroom window glass, so I'll get enough to arrange it around the pvc so hopefully I won't start getting the slimy little monsters in my new home. I was ok in my last place as it was an upstairs flat, but before that in my country cottage I had a constant battle. I kept finding slime trails on the carpet as they went under the front door towards my kitchen. Not nice finding them on your food worktops! Every night I had to thoroughly barricade both doors as they can get thru tiny gaps.
Double width high quality copper helps when growing from a pot. But when growing directly in the earth, use strong espresso coffee powder...5/5 or 8/10 which ever you can buy and not weaker coffee bean powder. That is the strength that no slug likes.
Use copper mesh - you can staple or nail it on to wood. It’s wider and kind of creates a ‘skirt’. I use a band of copper tape and a ring of copper mesh around the top of my terracotta pots which have hostas in. I also use a little plug of mesh in the holes in the bottom of all my pots to stop them camping out in the crock.
Very well intended but hedgehogs are lactose intolerant, milk gives them terrible stomach issues , I hope you didn’t accidentally kill it with your kindness. Please do some research on what to feed hedgehogs.
You can buy serrated copper tape here 🇬🇧 If make the serrations stick up a bit they really don't like that. Under the lips of your pots you put Vaseline with salt mixed in. Under the lip the rain isn't going to touch it and it will definitely keep the slugs & snails away.
Dear @Lilly, wouldn't the battery discharge on the first rain? Plank will be wet, current will flow. Can you please give us an update on this setup? Better alternative? Love from Montréal
You could look for plastic U profiles that fit flush around the top rim, stick the copper tape on the profiles (with the seams at the 'inside' of the profile, protect the edges from curling and peeling off/loose): Tadaaaa... a nice copper trim for your planter! 😉
fill the sidewalks with a lot of ash, snails can't cross on it. btw in my greenhouse very small naked slugs can descend from the top window on a mucoid thread like spiderman. that is horrible.
Use stainless-steel wire ,coper will degrade over time, like they use for welding on a spool , and stainless steel staples , its a job done for life then.
