In this video, you show that we need to cut off competitor's branches. What about next following year ? Do we need to consider any branches that next to the leeading branches are competitor's branches and need to be cut off ?

Can you tell me when we need to seal a pruning ends?

Great video

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

As other coment,I'll try the aluminum foil as well,may save some$ if it works!

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.

European time truly does move much slower. It's been a really long couple of weeks

Do gardeners a favor...connect it to 230volt ac

does this work on open field? when everything rainy and wet? or will the battery drain, or the electricity just go somwhere else?

Same technique for dwarf fruit trees?

This "Buds" for you! Not!!

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.

You may need to renew the tape every year or so as once the surface of the tape becomes discoloured, if find that it is no longer effective.

Hey is there an update?

Wow great video, thank you so much for sharing !!!

No does not work

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.

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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.

Do you know that these Metals are full of machineoil? Thats very unhealthy.

Will the setup get shortcircuit due to rain water?

I'm left wondering if copper is a physical or chemical barrier for these marigold pests.

Very useful. Thank you

that's such a cutie patootie dog

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

Useful. Thank you.

Use copper staples or nails to prevent galvanic corrosion

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.

I put a 1" wide copper strip in my garden next to the cabbage. I watched as slug after slug passed over it without even hesitating.

Clean it with lemon juice when it oxidises and it works forever but I prefer beer traps

I’d just drill a plastic boarder all round the veg bed then apply the tape. Tape seems a great deterrent and cruelty free so worth the hassle!!

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What jars are these?

I use copper wire and a battery

Wonderful. Proud of you girl. Men are so into tech building, like they are building a whole house. Simple is wonderful. Love it.

I Have the 2” copper tape and I added it to my garden bed on a dry day. So far they are nice on and I have had a couple rainy days

So annoying when gardens talk with their hands.....reminds me of darts sidious when he's about to produce some lightening

Aluminium tape is cheaper, and once you stick with the electric fence idea you probably do not need copper.

What kind of onions do you plant I would really like to know thank you ❤

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.

what if it rains? will it short?

EXCELLENT !!!

This vid has confirmed an idea I've had but I wanted to know how long each 9v battery lasts for. Thanks this vid was simple and very informative. 👍🏿