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Cedar chips and salt. I mixed sawdust with salt to it worked good.Slugs are highly susceptible to electrical current. And it turns out it doesn’t take much. I have refined it several times and this is what I suggest doing, although you can make this work in many different ways. It all depends on what your growing in for how you will set up your slug wall. You can take these principles and refine them so they work for you. I have a very simple version I will give, but there are more complex variations I can give examples of. For this example; I have a number of 50gal plastic drums that I have saved and these are what I will use as my example. You could do the same with a bucket or even build one on a raised bed design. And ways I take the plastic drum and I cut the top off. I then go down about 4-6 inches and I cut around the drum. So the top 4-6 inches is removed, in a perfect ring. This ring can be place over a plant so it sits on the ground with the plant or container sits inside. I mentioned electrical current, well don’t worry this is safe. It’s low low low current and doesn’t poise any health risks to humans or pets unless you have a pet slug. Around the outside of the ring cut from the drum , about half way up I run automotive double stick panel applicator tape. The stuff holds up well. I then take two long strands of uninsulated copper wire and run them next to each other around the ring on the double sided tape, leavening 1/8-1/4 inch between the wires. You need to leave about 6 inches of wire hanging off each end of each wire. I attached the top wire and leave a 4” lead and do the same with the bottom. I then take a 9v battery and attach the top wire to the positive and the bottom wire to the negative. When the slugs start to cross the second wire, still touching the first they get electrocuted. The resin his works so well is once it dries, it’s slimy body changes and it no longer works as a conductor, so the battery stops discharging and can work on the next slug that tries to pass.
That’s the simplest way I can lay it down with out drawings. The more advanced “gorilla grow” version I have takes the cheap night time path lights, and you just open it up, hook the feed to the led to your “slug wall” and then it will not only keep the battery charged all season, but t will also only come on at night- slugs are nocturnal after all.
Let me know if you have questions, and I’ll try and upload some photos. My experience includes setting up a fish tank last year and test this along with several other “wives tales” to see what worked.
