Round anchor necklace made of copper to repel snails

For about ten years, copper is an insider tip to repel snails in the vegetable garden.

The speculations are still open: copper worm spoiled the appetite for flowers and salad or is a slight electrical voltage in the game? Even the NABU is not opposed to the copper worm defense. A metal that eventually finds in the pipes of drinking water use.

But how to get at the copper? The Internet is the tip to cut open old power cord and use the copper wires. Or to get the plumber and this copper sheet to cut into strips.

A Pforzheim jewelery chain manufacturer had a brilliant idea: the usual gold wire for the manufacture of necklaces he replaced with copper wire. The result of the manufacturing process is a copper jewelry chain, which is placed around plants or flower beds. The soft links (4 mm in diameter) always adapt to the Erdkonturen. Unlike gold chains are not soldered to the individual members and can therefore be bent. This allows the chain shorten or lengthen later. Delivered a five-meter-long piece of chain is a copper weight of approximately 165 grams

With the copper-round anchor jewelry chain snails are sold but not killed. By NABU they are also called health care of the garden, the remains removed from the range of flora and fauna.