I've got loads of brown snails and slugs in my container garden destroying everything! What's the best way to get rid of them without using pellets (I don't want to use them because I've got a dog).
I've heard of using beer traps, is it just lager you put out for them?
2006-06-14 23:45:28 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
You can buy copper tape that you lay round the garden as a boundary, or tie round pots, etc. They will not cross the tape! Excellent stuff! I also found the website below which may help!
2006-06-15 08:56:02 · answer #1 · answered by cuddlymummy 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
If you have a way of disposing of the little creters, we live next to a canal, so a stream or river would be good. You go out after it has rained or first thing in the morning with a hand trowel and collect all the slugs and snails you can find and throw them in the canal. If you do this every day for a week you will reduce the population to a level that you can cope with. Ifnot you can get some nematoids that eat the little creters alive. You can get these from garden centres or on the net for about £15-£20, you have to water them into the worst effected areas in warm weather. Just the thought of them getting that horrible end makes you feel better.
2016-03-27 04:27:42 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My dad used the beer trick. Place a saucer into the ground so that the sides are level with the surrounding soil (makes it easy for the slug to crawl in), then fill with beer. Empty daily, or it starts to stink.
I had a friend who would place overturned flowerpots around in his flowerbeds, then in the evening would go out and "pick" the accumulated slugs and drop them in a container of soapy water. This doesn't kill all of them, but it does cut down on the population considerably if you are consistent with it.
He also would shake Japanese Beetles off his flowers into a container of soapy water. I've done this for years at my house, and the Japanese Beetle population is now almost nil. Of course, I live in a protected area away from other people with plants, or I'm sure I wouldn't have been so successful at this.
2006-06-15 01:31:19 · answer #3 · answered by sweetcake1948 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Beer traps do work, but it needs to be beer not lager (I've never tried lager tho, maybe it would work?) It works best if you use a low sided tray, they must be attracted to the smell? Anyway next day you will have a tray full of slugs and snails who died happy!! And at least they don't live to experience the hangover!
2006-06-14 23:51:01 · answer #4 · answered by Emma T 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i had this problem but i did not want to use the usual pellets as i have a family of hedgehogs living in and around my garden, i thought they would have kept theslugs in check but they didnt,
the garden centre handed me an information leaflet and order form for a natural predator, it is called NEMA-SLUG this is a natural predator.
i ordered a packet of this and all i had to do was mix the contents of a sachet in a watering can and spray it very finely over the affected area, six weeks later i barely see a slug in the garden and the haedgehogs are thriving nicely too.
2006-06-17 07:18:41 · answer #5 · answered by Golden wheeler 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Slugs and Snails?
These creatures have their task in life, too, contributing to keep the earth functioning and livable.
However, we do not want them to eat our garden. I have read that putting sand or chalk powder around the entire garden will keep them out.
Obviously, this has to be releated after wind and rain, but I think it is worth a try, since any toxic means would also affect your garden harvest, seen or unseen.
Happy harvest.
Cordially, India.Magica
2006-06-14 23:54:19 · answer #6 · answered by india.magica 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I put a bowl of cat food out for a hedgehog in our garden, (after our dogs had been let out for the last time at night) it attracted the slugs and snails like wildfire. Then the hedgehog ate them along with the food.
2006-06-16 00:58:33 · answer #7 · answered by Jayne 2 (LMHJJ) 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lager does work but as everyone has pointed out, it's pretty disgusting having to empty the containers full of dead, slimy slugs! I tried egg shells and though it didn't help me, it's worth a try.
2006-06-15 00:01:13 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Salt and slug-beer traps----none of these unless you've got the stomach to watch them MELT into your garden. SOOO-
use WHITE LIME--sprinkle over veggies late in the evening-(they crawl at nite when the ground is moist). Keep lime on it......
2006-06-14 23:56:41 · answer #9 · answered by Dreamcatcher 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Slugs and snails cannot crawl over gravel - give consideration to creating scree around the base of your more valuable plants.
2006-06-16 03:08:23 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋