How To Make A 9 Volt Electric Fence To Keep Snails & Slug’s Out Of Your Garden Beds… – Eco Snippets

How To Make A 9 Volt Electric Fence To Keep Snails & Slug’s Out Of Your Garden Beds…

How To Make A 9 Volt Electric Fence To Keep Snails & Slug’s Out Of Your Garden Beds...
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Here’s an interesting method of pest control designed to keep slugs & snails out of a garden bed. One guy made a mini electric fence out of garden wire and a 9 volt battery. (Apparently anything above 9v can kill them. So kept it low so they can just learn that there are no more free lunches and still live to pass on the tale). Here’s how he did it…

Step 1, Remove Snails / Slugs…

How To Make A 9 Volt Electric Fence To Keep Snails & Slug’s Out Of Your Garden Beds...

The bed in question…

How To Make A 9 Volt Electric Fence To Keep Snails & Slug’s Out Of Your Garden Beds...

Make a small loop and staple it in place. (This is Galvanized Coated Garden Wire, 1.6 mm)…

How To Make A 9 Volt Electric Fence To Keep Snails & Slug’s Out Of Your Garden Beds...

Run the cable all the way around the bed…

How To Make A 9 Volt Electric Fence To Keep Snails & Slug’s Out Of Your Garden Beds...

Bring the end back through the loop…

How To Make A 9 Volt Electric Fence To Keep Snails & Slug’s Out Of Your Garden Beds...

Secure in place with more staples…

How To Make A 9 Volt Electric Fence To Keep Snails & Slug’s Out Of Your Garden Beds...

Do the same for the second cable, but this time make sure the second cable does not touch the first…

How To Make A 9 Volt Electric Fence To Keep Snails & Slug’s Out Of Your Garden Beds...

Find a watertight container and drill 2 small holes…

How To Make A 9 Volt Electric Fence To Keep Snails & Slug’s Out Of Your Garden Beds...

You can just tape the ends to a 9volt battery now (this is how I ran the first one I made for 2 days with no problem)…

How To Make A 9 Volt Electric Fence To Keep Snails & Slug’s Out Of Your Garden Beds...

But now I’ve had a bit of time (and its stop raining) I decided to solder a 9v connector to the ends…

How To Make A 9 Volt Electric Fence To Keep Snails & Slug’s Out Of Your Garden Beds...

How To Make A 9 Volt Electric Fence To Keep Snails & Slug’s Out Of Your Garden Beds...

I then also stuck the 9volt to the lid, just in case water did get in the box, the battery will not sit in any rain water…

How To Make A 9 Volt Electric Fence To Keep Snails & Slug’s Out Of Your Garden Beds...

Quick LED test to make sure its all running fine…

How To Make A 9 Volt Electric Fence To Keep Snails & Slug’s Out Of Your Garden Beds...

All done…

How To Make A 9 Volt Electric Fence To Keep Snails & Slug’s Out Of Your Garden Beds...

Here’s how the snails react…

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(79) comments

Toni Layton Stanfield

Raenell U Ito-Shimabukuro ???

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Nick Vinson

Karina Vinson

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    Karina Vinson

    They also get zapped by copper wire! Got any more lying around? ?

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Melissa Mennor

Kristen Boeck

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    Kristen Boeck

    Oh shit!!! My luck id zap the hell out of myself and burn down the backyard?

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Mariette Vautour

I feed mine beer. LOL

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    Tess Perry

    Me too!!

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Jean Davis

Ben Davis

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Ben Davis

Kate Davis Philip Kindleysides

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Ellie Lee

Darren Lane Teresa Lee like what you said for my tomatoes against the mice! Peter Lee

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Jim Matthews

Would this work for rabbits and groundhogs???

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William C. Massey

How long will the battery last?

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    Andrew Jensz

    Theoretically, the battery is not discharging at all until the snail completes the circuit, so it should last a while.

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Theodore Krueger

Copper tape works without electricity

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Teagan Denholm

Michael , we should do this when we build the new garden beds

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Brad Barnett

You don’t need voltage. A simple copper wire has enough ambient current to thwart snails and slugs.

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Neitana Cookson

Lucas Wytze

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    Lucas Wytze

    What an idea. Beats going out in the dark with my torch.

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    Neitana Cookson

    Gives you a good reason to go out for a sneaking puff haha

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Kristy Renee

Is this more humane? Damien

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    Damien Nikiforides

    Yeah won’t kill them. Me do this for ours?

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    Daniel Marshall

    Yeah maybe lift the voltage and trick some people ?

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    Damien Nikiforides

    Daniel Marshall lick it to test 😛

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    Daniel Marshall

    ?

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Linda Ellis-Toddington

Darrel

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Stuart Simpson-Smith

Ali Simpson-Smith

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Margaret Judge

This really works, we did it with our raised beds. I can’t wait untill the next growing season ????

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Michele Cree

Just up your alley

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Niki Cottingham

Copper didn’t stop the snails in my previous garden

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John Duffy

Joanne Lindsay Butler

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Harri Crocombe

Beckie Criddle!!

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    Beckie Criddle

    Will get Steve on it!!

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Damien Adair

Moma Lo

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    Moma Lo

    You can set this up for us

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Filip Twarkowski

L1-L2 400V works perfekt

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Stephen Palmer

Sue’n’Dave heres an idea!!!

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Paula Harrington

I’m so sick of slugs and snails. I’ve been hand picking them.

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Nick Coddington

Julia Coddington

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Melva Behr

We never have snails as we have blue tongued lizards

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Cat McCready

Travis McCready

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Eloise Milam

David Milam

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Jef Stuart

SALT

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Troy Gills

Scott Ritchie

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Phil Morris

Louise Morris 🙂

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Byron Radford

Growing any good lettuces bro?

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Sally Gregory

Yvonne Du Plessis – check this out!

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Bryan Ashby

Haha Lucas you are kidding right ??!!!

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Debbie Retief

Natalie Retief, Karl Retief

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Caroline Teunissen-Wilcox

Talullah Duffley

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Luke McIvor

Louise Franklin make a little fence for khan to stop him getting in garden

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Deb Maui Driscoll

Aloha Tommy

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Janneke Van Der Heide

Ragna, Maarten ??

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Norma Oldham

Leanne Oldham

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    Leanne Oldham

    there’s an idea to try!!

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Kathleen Bodden-Harris

Snail farms in France use this method to contain their herds. Very interesting!

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Mike Windrim

please, slugs not slug’s 🙁

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    Anne Burke Richardson

    Jar of beer, sink into the grownd, they die happy!

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Mutindi Song'e

My biggest problem is termites any help in that area? Thanks.

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Jeanette Leonetti

a jar cap of beer will attract them and kill them.

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Triona de Burca

Where the ISPCA when you need them!

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Margaret Judge

We made this around our raised beds last year and it really works ?

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Lisa Schiltz

Our neighbor put beer out for slugs. They seem to love it and drown in it.

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Suzanne Meyers

Soniya Devi Yambem

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    Soniya Devi Yambem

    Pretty neat 🙂

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Ayaz Palma

Does it kill them?

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Andreas Stokowy

Paul Vincent

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Adrian Weeks

Helen Lupton-Weeks what do you think ?
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    Helen Lupton-Weeks

    Yep please … when you setting it up then xx

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    Hywel Rees

    Helen Lupton-Weeks you know he’s just going to up the voltage to discourage yoofs, yobbos and boyfriends…..

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    Helen Lupton-Weeks

    Hywel Rees ??

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    Helen Lupton-Weeks

    Hywel Rees ?? too true x

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    Hywel Rees

    Helen Lupton-Weeks when are we doing the post Sainsbury’s cocktail evening? Given I am out of work again I would like something to look forward to!

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    Helen Lupton-Weeks

    Hywel Rees I will look at calendar and get back to you. Us unemployed should definitely get a few cocktails in us ??just for inspiration of course x

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    Helen Lupton-Weeks

    I finish in the 8th so possibly that weekend but I’ll double check xx

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Elynor Cassinelli

Beer works better.

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Vicky Burton

Fresh veggies with your Escargot!

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Craig Tammen

Save a little money. Just surround your plots with some rock salt.

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Richard Jarvis

Melanie Morin Mason

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Debbie Ostema

Denise DeChant

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