Help the nasty little critters are eating our strawberries before they have the chance to ripen fully. I am reluctant to use slug bait as our 3yo is often out there raiding the patch.
Any ideas!
helsbelsnz,
Nov 8, 11:19pm
We made beer traps, but used yeast instead of beer which worked well.Just takes plastic bottles, water and yeast and there are loads of instructions online.
terachaos,
Nov 8, 11:30pm
Try spent coffee grounds, most critters including dogs and cats will avoid contact with the stuff.
ro42,
Nov 8, 11:37pm
crushed eggshells scattered over the ground - they don't like it and won't go over it. Combined with beer traps (just tin cans sunk into the ground with some beer in them) it works well.
lythande1,
Nov 9, 1:25am
Tui Quash.
pauldw,
Nov 9, 2:04am
Snails will quite happily chew on egg shell as a source of calcium. Why help them grow bigger! Beer does work.
gilco2,
Nov 9, 2:20am
yep Tui Quash is excellent
bluefrog2,
Nov 9, 4:19am
Tui Quash for me too.Never managed to get beer traps to work.
mottly,
Nov 9, 4:26am
I find sawdust works perfectly
shannie1998,
Nov 9, 5:11am
Also a ring of salt around the plant.
gardie,
Nov 9, 6:01pm
Yes, but may be detrimental to plants!
ro42,
Nov 9, 6:42pm
Snails! OK, didn't know that. It works well for slugs. When I was in France and looking after a pottager, I introduced beer traps because there were so many slugs. They worked so well the tiger slugs (huge stripey slugs that eat other slugs) staked them out - waited by them for the other slugs to turn up. I collected bucketfulls of the horrid things, which the farmer there took to feed to the pigs. The pigs developed quite a taste for beer-flavoured slugs!
k_stuart,
Nov 27, 8:08am
Thanks for the recommendations. I bought some Tui quash and tonight picked an ice-cream container full of strawberries and not a single slug munched one! Before that I was losing probably 40% of them. Stoked :D
neilru,
Nov 27, 8:22am
salt.also beer
sandy11,
Dec 22, 11:16am
Sawdust works well, but make sure it's untreated.
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