Either that or they have trampolines or pogo sticks.Originally Posted by justontime
The beer works well. I've used these traps before with lemonade too which works if you don't have beer in the house. I think any kind of sweet liquid will attract them.
A word of warning though, don't leave it too long before you empty it out and replace the beer. Drowned slugs are pretty disgusting anyway but even more so after a few days of fermentation!Empty it out each morning if there's anything in it.
Well, we do have a trampoline in the garden!!Either that or they have trampolines or pogo sticks.
The beer works well. I've used these traps before with lemonade too which works if you don't have beer in the house. I think any kind of sweet liquid will attract them.
A word of warning though, don't leave it too long before you empty it out and replace the beer. Drowned slugs are pretty disgusting anyway but even more so after a few days of fermentation!
I will try it with a soft drink, I'm teetotal so I wasn't too keen on buying beer even for slugs.
My 13 year old son can deal with the casualties, he doesn't seem bothered by grim stuff like that. When he was younger he was always asking if he could dig up his dead hamsters to see if they had turned into skeletons!
That's funny! Why are boys so gross anyway, hmmm...mine was the same at that age. Don't forget you could send him out with a torch and salt too since he's not fazed by unpleasant things and get him to do the dirty work.
No one in my house drinks either, which is why I know the lemonade works. Any kind of soda will do, just whatever you have to hand. I find a jelly jar's about the right size to bury.
Slugs are the worst, they are like a plague to a garden, there are a lot of good tips here which is great. If you re-do your garden bed with compost or new soil, I would recommend mixing in some sand or hard rock material to deter the slugs next year this way they will stay out of your garden without you having to empty out traps everyday or going out every night to commit slug murder.
i have tried the beer trap method, without success. I tried to keep them off strawberry plants. I have raised beds and everything. i hate to use any of the slug pellets. maybe the lemonade will work. thanks for that tip, hadn't heard of it.
This thread started few years back but anyhow,...
if beer traps don’t work let them eat cornmeal,
usually slugs die after eating it
and if that still doesn’t work,
mix a few amount of ammonia to water
and directly spray it to slugs.
I have heard a lot about the beer traps, and I've seen a couple of videos on youtube. And judging from the results i've seen I really think the trap works. It's worth trying.
Slugs damages shady gardens.
You can see them in the moistest parts of the gardens or during rainy season;
But if there are many slugs this year, that doesn't mean you will see more of them the following year.
If you want to see fewer slugs, better make sure watch out for the moist conditions of your garden.
Even here in Australia, the beer works fine to kill the snails / slugs
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