Homemade copper slug rings...

A short slideshow on how we made some slug rings to protect our young sunflower plants,and other plants, these are easy to make using just hand tools, and all you need is some old plastic waste pipe (which is what I used) or some other type of pipe that has some flex to it, and some self adhesive copper tape, which a lot of garden centers and diy type shops sell.

You could also use larger sizes of pipe to make bigger rings, basically all you need to do is cut the pipe into sections that are the same width as the copper tape, and then cut them so you can open and close them, then all that's left is to wrap them in the copper tape, easy and they are reusable as well.

They worked well to protect our young sunflowers so we'll be using them again on other plants that slugs and snails like.

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A video of a much needed repair to one of our sets of wood framed double glazed windows, the repair was carried out a while ago now and is holding up well, and I have since carried out a similar repair to one of the other windows on the house, which is the bonus of having wood frame windows, it's easy to carry out repairs like this, tends to be a bit harder on upvc windows.

You can see in the video that the bead that holds the glazed unit in has started to rot, so this is me carefully cutting out the rotten wood and replacing it with a new piece and making good.

The alternative to doing this kind of repair maybe to strip the paint off the wood and apply a wood plasticiser, there are products you can buy that essential soak into the wood and set hard, they also prevent further damage.

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