The simplest way to rid your garden of slugs and snails is just going out at night with a torch and picking snails off your plants. Put them in a jar and dispose of them in the morning.
Another way is laying coffee grounds round your plants. Slugs and snails find it difficult to traverse coffee grounds. Coffee grounds can become quite acidic, so counter-balance that with a sprinkling of garden lime.
Yeast or beer traps are another option. For yeast traps, mix 1 teaspoon of dried yeast and 1 teaspoon of white sugar together in a cup of warm water until the yeast and sugar dissolve and the mixture froths. Pour into a recycled container or saucer, or purchase a snail trap which has the advantage of having a lid to keep out the rain.
One of the most effective ways is to find a heavy large pot. Stuff it with rolled-up pieces of newspaper. Turn it upside down on your garden and make sure you place something like a stone on one side to create an entrance to the pot. During the day when it’s light and warm, slugs and snails will crawl into the pot and it’s then that you empty out the newspaper containing the pests and dispose of them.
With a concerted effort you can break the cycle of slugs and snails and rid yourself of them!
The codling moth traps we make work especially well because they trap both the male and female codling moth, unlike the pheromone traps you buy which only trap the male.
Using a 2-litre empty milk bottle, cut two holes the size of golf ball on either side at the top of the bottle just under the lid. This is where the moths enter, attracted by the smell, and drown.
Make a mixture of water, molasses, cider vinegar, ammonia and dishwashing liquid and fill about 5-8cms in the bottom of the bottles.
Use cloth ribbon rather than twine for tying so as not to damage the branches. Choose two branches that you can tie the bottle between. This reduces the movement of the bottle.
Check the bottles during the growing season. You may need to add more water if the mixture evaporates.
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Excellent video! Can you add a bit of flour to the slug mixture for the trap, or you don't find it necessary?
Excellent ideas, very helpful.
What happens when it rains? Wouldn’t it get diluted?
I found one lil' slug on my cauliflower in the fridge. Now it lives in a little cup on my balcony with some plant scraps. I assume it can survive on these scraps?
Hello, Thank you got this video. My slug problem this year is crazy! Usually I have plenty of frogs and they take care of them for me. This year I’ve only seen two frogs! So needless to say, my slug problem has just exploded! I’ll be making the yeast and sugar mix. Thank you so much for this information. I’m sure this will work. My grandparents always gardened and would use a can of beer. But with this pandemic, I was looking for something I had on hand. This is perfect and makes sense. My garden and myself say thanks! ❤️💜💚
what kind of yeast is it
Thank you for your informative tip about slug control. How much water for the yeast trap?
Coffee grounds is a nitrogen source, not carbon.
Can you use that mixture for the white moth that attacks brassicas and also can the molasses be substituted please ? Great helpful video for the slugs too thankyou !
I use coffee to get rid of them 😀
Build 12 inch high wood frame around your garden attach "smooth edge all along the top tacks angled down. Snails won't climb over it. Smooth edge is nailed to the floor next to wall when installing carpet it will last for a few years. It has 100s of little tacks in it angled to grab carpet.
@1:38, where can I buy beautiful rich soil like this? Also what is the name of these soil?
Thank you so much for this informative video! I got so much out of it.
Can we change the yeast solution daily
What was that dark coffee colour liquid.
I put a head light on and some gloves and plastic container with holes for air. I take a needle nose tweezers and go all over my property after a nice rain, at night and I find at least 20-30 each time. I do this for 2 days til I have a ton of them. Then I drive to the lake and let them all go. Lots of ducks, geese and seas gulls that will gladly eat them. I doubt any survive but if they do, it’s not for long. I do this all Spring til Fall. I am seeing a lot less slugs now. I used to grab about 30 or so a night. Now I get maybe 10. I can’t kill them, I’m an animal lover, so taking them to the lake and letting them go is the humane way. Who knows they may just survive. At least they have a chance and are not eating and destroying my garden and hostas. They are so annoying, they leave holes on everything. I picked up a small one and put it in a huge spiders web, even the spider didn’t want the slug . He came quickly to see what yummy bug he caught and saw it was a slug and ran off. I took the slug out of the web and set it free by the lake, with his friends. I cant have them in my garden. Btw beer doesn’t work. Neither does many of the other things he showed. At least not for me
That stupid music is annoying
the traps trap 5 snales while when you look at night there are 100 snales
I used the beer method and it attracted my next door neighbor.
I was hoping you had a real torch and not a flashlight.
Can you use urine as ammonia?
Coffee grounds are ph neutral the acid is extracted in the brewing process plus they do nothing to repell molluscs FACT
Not the mythical Bullshite you advocate
Meh.😮 f j b 😊