Smashing Copper
April 17th, 2011. (2 years, 10 months old.) by benMommy sure has it out for those snails! She’s got Daddy and I doing hard labor building heavy duty snail barriers for the garden boxes.
But shhhhh! Don’t tell her! It’s really fun!
5 Responses to “Smashing Copper”
Ben is always a great help with around the house projects. I bet it really was hard work flattening the copper tubing with a plastic hammer. I guess he will eventually work his way up to the 4 lb. hand sledge.
Is there anything you CAN’T do, Ben? Mom must really have a snail problem because that copper tubing is expensive! Why don’t the snails like the copper? Do you have an answer for me? Thanks, Ben!
Just for the record, that is a wooden hammer that Ben is using, not a plastic one. We had to give him at least half a chance against the copper pipe. 😉
Next, Mommy has a very average snail/slug problem, but she has a BIG toddler-loose-in-the-yard problem. Therefore, we try to use non-pesticide approaches to reducing pests.
Finally, as best we can understand, snails & slugs are irritated by copper oxide and stay away from it. We have been successful minimizing snails & slugs with the use of copper tape, but that has been difficult to maintain.
Hmmm… a 4 lb. hand sledge. That sounds like the tool that I should have been using….
It seems to me that there is a 4 lb. hand sledge in the picture. Were you not using it to flatten the copper pipe?
What you really need is the sledge and an nice anvil!