![]() ![]() So, saucers of beer sunk into the ground will attract them in and drown them – a relatively nice way to go perhaps? The resulting ‘drowned slug soup’ does need to be disposed of regularly though! Drown Them: Slugs love beer, milk and most sugary/yeasty liquids and are attracted by the smell.I’ve tried all of them but with mixed success – the slugs I get in my greenhouse seem to get past most of them! Use Barriers: a ‘moat’ of gritty substances around your crops, copper rings (which produce a slight electric shock to the slugs) or plastic barriers (commercial or made from yoghurt pots) are all options.So what solutions are open to the organic gardener? There are five main methods: They usually contain metaldehyde (a pesticide) or methiocarb (an insecticide), neither of which are in keeping with organic principles. But slug pellets are poisons that cause considerable distress for pets, wildlife, birds and beetles. Spread a few around your crops and you wouldn’t have to worry about losing your plants. In years gone by there was one standard answer: slug pellets. You take your prize seedlings, spend a hard day’s work planting them out and wake up the next morning to find them gone: often just the little stumps of stems and a slimy trail pointing the finger at the culprit. After weeks of carefully raising small plants from seed, checking their moisture levels and carefully hardening them off outside, slugs can wreck it all. If there’s one garden pest that gardeners hate more than any other it’s slugs.
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