Years ago I used a product called "Slug Tape" (IIRC)
to minimise the slugs and snails had on my plants.
(N.B. it isn't the adhesive copper tape.)

I can't find any now, and I'm wondering where I can
get it.

Slug Tape was a 1cm wide strip of paper impregnated
with metaldehyde. When layed across a "slug highway",
it was extremely effective at preventing them getting
near my plants. Alternatively, putting a loop around
a stem protected that individual plants. It was
effective for a surprisingly long time, surviving
several showers or a burst of heavy rain. Since it
was paper, birds etc didn't eat it, unlike the blue
granules.

Currently I'm making an alternative by painting a
thick metaldehyde paste onto toilet roll cardboard
types. It works, but I'm lazy.

So does anybody know
- who made it?
- where I can get some from?
- any alternatives?

Thanks!

On Sat, 27 May 2006 10:01:54 GMT, Tom Gardner <tggzzz [at] -blueyonder.co.uk>
wrote:

>Years ago I used a product called "Slug Tape" (IIRC)
>to minimise the slugs and snails had on my plants.
>(N.B. it isn't the adhesive copper tape.)

I was a little concerned about the post title but you've now clarified
that ;-)
--
Paul C

Basildon.

Next question?

--
Brian
"Fight like the Devil, die like a gentleman."

On Sat, 27 May 2006 10:01:54 GMT, Tom Gardner
<tggzzz [at] -blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

>Years ago I used a product called "Slug Tape" (IIRC)
>to minimise the slugs and snails had on my plants.
>(N.B. it isn't the adhesive copper tape.)
>
>I can't find any now, and I'm wondering where I can
>get it.
>
>Slug Tape was a 1cm wide strip of paper impregnated
>with metaldehyde. When layed across a "slug highway",
>it was extremely effective at preventing them getting
>near my plants. Alternatively, putting a loop around
>a stem protected that individual plants. It was
>effective for a surprisingly long time, surviving
>several showers or a burst of heavy rain. Since it
>was paper, birds etc didn't eat it, unlike the blue
>granules.
>
>Currently I'm making an alternative by painting a
>thick metaldehyde paste onto toilet roll cardboard
>types. It works, but I'm lazy.
>
>So does anybody know
> - who made it?
> - where I can get some from?
> - any alternatives?
>
>Thanks!
>
>
Can't help, but where do you get your metaldehyde?


--
Chris

E-mail: christopher[dot]hogg[at]virgin[dot]net

Paul Corfield <aooy65 [at] dsl.pipex.com> wrote in
news:s4ag72t2dvsabgl7e53bre3jge2g77vlpk [at] 4ax.com:

> On Sat, 27 May 2006 10:01:54 GMT, Tom Gardner <tggzzz [at] -blueyonder.co.uk>
> wrote:
>
>>Years ago I used a product called "Slug Tape" (IIRC)
>>to minimise the slugs and snails had on my plants.
>>(N.B. it isn't the adhesive copper tape.)
>
> I was a little concerned about the post title but you've now clarified
> that ;-)

Ah. I see what you mean.

"Brian Watson" <WACCI_inf [at] hotmail.com> wrote in
news:4dqov7F1an1eeU1 [at] individual.net:

> Basildon.
>
> Next question?
>

North south east or west, and distance?

"Tom Gardner" <tggzzz [at] -blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
news:Xns97D0D90B4D0F5tggzzzmadasafishcom [at] 194.117.143.53...
> "Brian Watson" <WACCI_inf [at] hotmail.com> wrote in
> news:4dqov7F1an1eeU1 [at] individual.net:
>
>> Basildon.
>>
>> Next question?
>>
>
> North south east or west, and distance?

The one nearest Laindon.

--
Brian

Chris Hogg <me [at] privacy.net> wrote in
news:a16h72ljsc5c1r7il0lbmhlvp4afttm89c [at] 4ax.com:

> Can't help, but where do you get your metaldehyde?

Scotts Liquid Concentrate "Slug Clear", which
is 20% metaldehyde. I got it from a local garden
centre a few years ago.

Presumably an alternative would be firelighters,
but I haven't looked to see what would be a
suitable solvent.