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I’ve been helping my mother with her garden and with all of the rain we’ve been having in the Northwest slugs are becoming a big problem. I remember as a kid dealing with them with salt but that doesn’t seem so grand anymore.

So to the web it was and I browsed the internet looking for nice eco ways to get rid of them. I landed upon using a barrier of oat bran. So I picked up some nice Bob’s Red Mill Oat bran with which to cut those icky slugs with. But then after sprinkling a bit we noticed the ants walking off with it. Not really wanting to feed the ants it was back to the drawing board.

Then I called my Master Gardener friend and here is what she suggested.

a) There is the slug beer drowning method. I guess they go after it and drown. You have to clean out the bowls regularly so as not to be too disgusted. Not being a drinker I really didn’t want to go buy any and bring it into the house. That method is out.

b) Then there is the copper shock method. I guess copper shocks them. You put a barrier of it around your plants and when they touch it they get shocked. So then you just have to get your hand on some copper. She also suggested you could use pennies. Here is a smidgen article about how much copper is in which pennies in case this is you method du jour.

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