I have, I reckon, over 100 different varieties of hostas, and many hundred specimens, most in ground , many in pots. I've never used copper tape / rings and I haven't had much damage.
Funny you should say this Hostafan 1 because I am just in the middle of making a wildlife pond with a sloping beach type effort - hoping to encourage more frogs and birds to the garden. Maybe I could put some hostas around the edge of the pond and not keep them all in pots as at present.
We have lots of birds, hedgehogs, frogs and toads - and we don't suffer too badly from slug damage - however copper strips around the pots would be a simple additional safeguard, if they work I may will get some and see what happens
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Your kidding Verdun??? it's not the 1st is it? Now seriously I am planning flower baskets on the wall again one problem, SNAILS do yyou think the copper tape would work on bricks?
Never been posh enough to buy the proper tape, when i had my allotments i used to use copper pan scourers opened up and slipped onto pots, they seemed to work well for me, i think the combination of the rough texture and copper worked
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I have, I reckon, over 100 different varieties of hostas, and many hundred specimens, most in ground , many in pots. I've never used copper tape / rings and I haven't had much damage.
Encourage blackbirds / thrushes and hedgehogs .
Funny you should say this Hostafan 1 because I am just in the middle of making a wildlife pond with a sloping beach type effort - hoping to encourage more frogs and birds to the garden. Maybe I could put some hostas around the edge of the pond and not keep them all in pots as at present.
encourage the predators and live with a bit of damage to your Hostas. The more wildlife, the less damage.
We have lots of birds, hedgehogs, frogs and toads - and we don't suffer too badly from slug damage - however copper strips around the pots would be a simple additional safeguard, if they work
I may will get some and see what happens 
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Your kidding Verdun???
it's not the 1st is it? Now seriously I am planning flower baskets on the wall again one problem, SNAILS do yyou think the copper tape would work on bricks?
I have some old copper pipe that I polish up and put around ones in the garden, it does help but the devils do tunnel under it.
The copper tape is sold in shops like Wilko, last year I think it was a quid a role.