What is the best way to get rid of slugs. solution must be pet friendly?
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My mother invented this and it really works!
Take a 2 liter soda bottle and cut the top off about a 1/4 of the way down. Turn it around and put it back inside itself so the top spout is not inserted into the bottom. Secure with tape around the sides, it doesn't have to be air tight just tight enough so they can't get out. Put some slug bait in the container or even some sugar water or other attractant. The slugs will get in but they cant get out. Watch the traps fill up then just toss them away.
beer in a bowl.. slugs are attrached to smell and then drown
don't know but hope you get some good answeres cause i wana know too.
My aunt is terribly afraid of them and she usually uses salt to do the trick. It dissolve them and is a solution for the moment, but I can't say if it really works for keeping them away (like sprinkling a salt trial around the house).
if in the house(salt)
if in the garden(beer) it might sound a little strange, but if you dig a hole place a bowl in it so the brim is level with the ground and pour a few can of beer in it, the slugs and snail are draw to it...try it ,it works !!
salt?!
Try Putting broken egg shells around the base of the plants or gravel seems to have worked for me. Good luck!
Up turned grapefruit skins on the lawn overnight, seem to attract lots underneath. Again, just throw them away. Or try Nemaslug - this is an organic slug destroyer, containing microscopic bugs that gets the slugs and snails. Available from The Green Gardener website (http://www.greengardener.co.uk/)...
The other solutions sound good, though I'm never convinced by beer. Better qualify that statement - never convinced by beer for slugs.
To get rid of slugs and snails, invert a flower pot near a shady plant. Use a stick to prop up the flower pot or place on irregular ground - whatever will give enough of an entrance way for slugs and snails. They will crawl under the rim to avoid the heat. Check the flower pot at the end of the day and remove the slugs and snails.
For those of you who can't imagine wasting beer on snails, try this home brew: Add 1/2 tsp. baking yeast and 1 tbsp. sugar to the water in each trap.
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Try half filling a jam jar or any old (leak proof) container with cider or beer outside overnight. Use more than one if you can,the slugs will be drawn by the smell,fall in and die happy !
If you have kids - pay them to collect snails and slugs. Mine used to earn extra pocket money at 2 for a penny. The creatures were bagged up and put in the rubbish bin for collection.
Now, I go out in the garden every night armed with a loo roll and a torch. I collect the slugs by picking them up in loo paper (because of the slime) and flush them down the loo.
You can buy slug traps to sink in the ground - they have lids to keep out the rain - and add beer
Salt trails along bottom of patio doors to keep them out of the house during the summer.
Try to get it to go on top of some paper then drop it off somewhere.I am not very sure if this is the best way but it is a gentler than pouring salt on the poor slug
]There are two methods I use. The first I use in my flower garden is take a pie plate {disposable} and put it level with the ground. Also make sure there are no holes in the plate. Then pour beer into the plate and set it out in the evening they are attracted to the smell. they crawl in and they drown. Second I use ammonia and water 50/50 mix and spray it directly on the slugs
A 'beer bath' - a dish filled with beer that the slugs drop into in the garden. This is great when you don't have all day to search for them. If you see one, then you can pour salt on it, but too much salt is not good for your garden. With all the rain we have been getting here in Scotland the snails and slugs have been running riot and munching all over the garden destroying the look of all sorts of plants.
Good luck.
Salt which they hate as it kills them instantly, but you have to go out in the dark each night armed with a bucket with salt in it, a torch to spot the blighter and a trowel to pick them up.
Or put out saucers full of beer at night and in the morning you will have saucers full of drunken drowned slugs.
Both these ways are pet/children friendly.
hi chick
crumble up some egg shells or straw and place it around the base of your plants this is much to prickley for them to cross so will not attempt to. this does not harm any animals even the slugs. it worked on my sun flowers.
Build a pond it will bring frogs into your garden,we built one a few years ago and we never have problems with slugs or snails, just very fat frogs.
You cannot be friendly in killing slugs. There are two ways and one is hedgehogs and the other is just birds.
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