What advantage, if any, do copper gardening tools have over steel or iron ones?
” Read more … We have had a great deal of feedback from users of the tools. Here is a selection from the comments in our feedback folder. Read more … And here are some longer comments. The first one is from Bioforce, a company that grows and prepares medicinal herbs. Read more …Here are a couple more reports about the slug and snail effect. Read more … On Sunday 2nd September 2007, on BBC Radio 4’s Gardener’s Question Time, the following question was put to the team: “What advantage, if any, do copper gardening tools have over steel or iron ones?” Chairman: Do they have an advantage, Chris Beardshaw?Chris Beardshaw: There are various theories, … one of which is that in many soils copper is deficient, and therefore by using copper gardening tools, because copper and copper-derived tools are relatively soft, what you are doing when you’re digging in the ground is you are leaving a small residue which will then help to make up for the deficit. So that’s the kind of broad theory.
