Garden pests - slugs and snails
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Julian
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How do I get rid of slugs / snails. I live in UK therefore damp. I've tried all the usual things but don't want to use slug pellets because of the wildlife and birds. Help.
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give the slugs an old stale beer, serve in a very shallow pan. apply diatomaceous earth around the garden.
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Put a metal pie plate near where the slugs/snails are, sink it to ground level and add beer. They will gravitate to it and drown.
drown every one you see. Pretty soon you won't see very many
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put saucers of beer out. They crawl in and die. U have to keep refreshing this.
Hi Julian, it might sound silly but we have a few overturned flowerpots, with a stone placed under the rim to lift them up a bit, scattered around our garden. We check them every few days for snails. They like crawling inside. Grapefruit and orange halves work too. We also try watering our garden in the morning instead of the evening. Snails and slugs like moist conditions so by watering in the morning it gives the surface soil time to dry out by the evening when snails are most active.