Youve just planted lettuce strawberries or flowers and they have been eaten by slugs on the next day protect the fruit of your labours with this slug fence the slugs are banished and not killed the slugs disappear because of the copper oxide created the oxidation takes placed a few days after you have set up the fence just put the fence up around the plants which need to be protected attach with the nails and thats it you will receive 8 m copper band and 8 nails or 16 m copper band a