What is the best way to keep slugs and snails from eating my vegetable

Heard of people putting down shallow bowls of beer in their garden. The slugs are apparently like the stuff. They fall in and that's all folks.

Trap them under old boards. Pull the boards in the morning and dump them on vinegar water or sprinkle with salt. Another method is to put out jar lids with beer at night. The snails go right for the beer and drown very happily!

Place pie tins or empty tuna cans filled with beer and place throughout and around your veggies. Sounds strange but it works - slugs and snails are attracted to the scent and will crawl into and drown in the liquid.

stale beer in jar lids, placed under a piece of cardboard or part of a shingle. they are attracted to the scent, and drown. Remove every morning, replace in the evening. they will quit coming if it fills up with dead slugs

pie tins with stale beer, they will drown themselves. A ring of diatomaceous earth around the garden.

Beer is the best way to go. Works like a charm. : )