{"id":45332,"date":"2023-05-26T05:14:24","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T05:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=45332"},"modified":"2023-05-26T05:14:26","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T05:14:26","slug":"gardening-slugs-and-snails-and-copper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/gardening-slugs-and-snails-and-copper\/","title":{"rendered":"Gardening: slugs (and snails) and copper"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about gardening: the tutor mentions a possible way to deter slugs and snails.<\/h2>\n<p>\nSupposedly, slugs and snails don&#8217;t like touching copper because it reacts with their slime. Therefore, a copper boundary around a garden can deter them from entering, so prevent at least some of the damage they would do.<\/p>\n<p>\nAfter visiting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slughelp.com\/copper-snails-slugs\/\">slughelp.com<\/a>, I&#8217;m not sure how convinced I am about the real efficacy of copper, but it&#8217;s probably worth experimenting in one&#8217;s own garden to find out.<\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about gardening: the tutor mentions a possible way to deter slugs and snails. Supposedly, slugs and snails don&#8217;t like touching copper because it reacts with their slime. Therefore, a copper boundary around a garden can deter them from entering, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/gardening-slugs-and-snails-and-copper\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gardening: slugs (and snails) and copper<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2913],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45332"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45334,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45332\/revisions\/45334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}