How do I use Copperbed to protect from Slugs?
Slugs don’t like crawling over copper. So you need to present them with a significant area to crawl over if they are to get to your plants! We suggest a band of 200mm around the top of a raised bed is practical . With large terracotta pots we would recommend a band of 30mm at the base of the pot and then another 30 – 40mm band at the top of the pot. See examples on the web site. Don’t forget to make sure there are no slugs already in your raised beds or pots before you apply your Copperbed sides – you will be effectively imprisoning them once the Copperbed is applied. Use slug pellets or biological Nemaslug to remove them if necessary! 5) Do I need to use a “Primer” If the surface you are coating is porous, eg terracotta it is best practice to apply one or two primer coats prior to the full Copperbed product. The Primer is the resin and hardener applied alone without the copper. This is done to seal the material and so leave the maximum amount of copper exposed on the surface. You can
