Copper slug tape

[salome2001]

I tried copper tape around my tomato pots last year. Still found heaps of slugs in them and it didn;t deter the snails.
It also came off by the end of the season so I wouldn't consider it a long term investment.
I'm another one for nematodes, ferric phosphate pellets and salting the b*****s.

[Martin H]

Can't remember where I saw it, but someone had put 3 copper coins (? 2pences) around the stems of their courgettes, so that each coin touched another. Thought I might try this as I have a bag of old pennies, in a sock under the bed

They'll have to be old ones, the current ones are steel and even before that they haven't had much copper in them for ages. Too expensive!

[veggiechicken]

Well, I didn't know that coppers are made of steel You can't trust anything these days