Homemade slug trap working! Beware, gruesome pic attached!

Seakay .
I know - that's why I use the safe ones , but my ash , eggshell , lavender leaf barrier is working .
I'll be adding rosemary and digitalis and using it in future .

We get lots of frogs who find slugs a delicious treat, problem solved.

Well done. I've had to do the same in my allotment. I put the rotting bloated bodies in the compost although maybe a thrush may like them . They stripped my dwarf beans and ate 3 sunflowers. Little buggers.

Try putting a copper strip around the tree trunk new year.
They don’t like it up ‘em

btw, my 3 hotbins are full of snails, doing a fine job of making compost. The ones that stay in there are safe, for now

mine worked last year but the stench was terrible, rotten. Nematodes mainly for me this year and a bucket of salt water for the ones that escaped

Esmay

I haven't tried a beer trap for a long time .
It looks very successful .
I ran out of slug pellets yesterday whilst replanting .
I tried some eggshells, wood ash and lavender leaves as a substitute .
And it was successful .
Apparently , rosemary and foxglove leaves work as well .

"Birds and hedgehogs are attracted to slug pellets for similar reasons to those of domesticated pets. Because these animals tend to be smaller, even the slightest amount of exposure to the poisonous pellets cause proves fatal."
www.envii.co.uk/garden-blog-post/why-slug-pellets-are-dangerous-for-children-pets-and-wild-life/#:~:text=Birds%20and%20hedgehogs%20are%20attracted,poisonous%20pellets%20cause%20proves%20fatal.

According to the RHS most slugs are good for the garden while some others are not. Most of them prefer to feed on rotting vegetation so the best thing you can do is collect them in a non killing trap and actually put them on your compost heap on top of any vegetation. They will help to break it all down. And to keep them off your precious plants use the organic methods of a gritty mulch such as crushed eggshells all around the plant. I always found a beer trap good for catching them but as that kills them off and you can't then put them on your compost heap it's not such a good idea.

Well done. We’ve tried beer but perhaps the wrong one. Theve ruined our runner bean plants

The little blighters cannot cross holly leafs nor cat litter. Hope that helps.

I don't even bother to "sink" the pots in, I just leave them beside the plants, and they climb in, can't get out being drunk and drown I suppose. Or is it the attractive yeast in the beer that kills them.

Don't be squeamish about these pests. Visit early morning or any time it's dark. Take a secateurs and cut them in half. Their mates will come along and gorge on them. I did this and have had far less problems due to local culling. Don't let the guard down though they will be back! Beer a good idea; you don't have to be a drinker, just buy the cheapest but if you cover some damp soil near a plant then you will find the sleeping beauty there next day. Also, other creatures nibble at plants including birds and beetles. Use netting until the plant is big enough to look after itself. Just about covers it I think?

Another bit to add. I use very very cheap orange squash instead of beer - just tip it undiluted into a plastic cup and half bury it in the ground. In the morning I tip the slugs into the rainwater drain.

Here in Germany we are having terrible problems with the large brown spanish slugs. They lay about 400 eggs a year. They are classified as "invasive", having slowly been progressing northward from France or Spain.

I have been laying out spoonfuls of Polenta or coarse maize meal / grits under pots, planks, stones near the plants. The slugs ingest the dry Polenta and it swells up in their innards. The slugs become very lethargic and at least keep away from the plants for a few days. Of course, many will die of "tummy ache". Those that only ingested a little, often remain under the planks or pots and I them snip through the front third of the bodies, as recently being recommended by the local nature conservation.

People who have, with good intentions, collected the slugs and tossed them out in another part of the garden or in a field or forest nearby, are being very irresponsible. The slugs devour the plants that the native insects and fauna need to survive. So, I do the right thing and snip them with my garden clippers.

Years ago I did an experiment with big snails. I marked them with a tiny dot of white Tipex (remember that stuff?) and moved them from the back garden to the front. Inside a week, they were nearly all home again in the back garden. I was trying to find out if snails had a homing ability. They do!

They are coming to you in droves for the funeral feast. The slugs can apparently smell beer or their dead fellow slugs more than 300 meters/yards away. Dig a hole in the soil and tip the concoction into the hole. Rinse out the container and cover the hole with the soil. Christmas time is over for slugs too. What an odd concoction, beer with choc and orange. Very festive indeed

Yes, that's the best plan. I always do that with my slugs

I've only seen one snail so far, and not actually in the garden,
It's quite small, but seems to spend most of its time climbing up my front door, which is a bog standard wooden door, with glass window. There is absolutely nothing edible on the door for any species, so I can only think it must have some illness! I just pick it off the door and throw it down the garden. In a couple of days, it - or its lookalike - arrives near the top of the door again!!

Astonishing that anyone would think the toilet is a good place to dispose of slugs. Isn’t there enough publicity about the state of the sewage system, caused by people too lazy to consider what happens beyond the flush?

You can’t fix stupid.

Glad your beertrap was successful I think I ll have to try that does cider work what about larger ? I dont drink beer
Have to start experimenting I m totally fed up with the buxxers went to the allotment to day lost three bean plants four pea plants and a couple of courgette plants Chewed to the ground
I could have cried

They are very active this year, we have lost a few bedding plants, some melon plants and they are making a meal of the hostas. We have bought some cheap beer this morning.

I got loads of coffee grounds from waitrose (used ones from the free coffee) and built walls around the plants that are most at risk, fingers crossed that'll work!!

I haven't tried a beer trap for a long time .
It looks very successful .
I ran out of slug pellets yesterday whilst replanting .
I tried some eggshells, wood ash and lavender leaves as a substitute .
And it was successful .
Apparently , rosemary and foxglove leaves work as well .

I would compost them too.

Well done Witzend! It's very satisfying to find a method that works and I'm tempted to try it on my little veggie beds having seen how successful you've been.

If I find any live slugs or snails in my garden I just fling them over the back fence into the woods and hope that there are hedgehogs or birds that will appreciate them! And it keeps my arm muscles active and toned