Tricks against the slugs and snails

Against snails, deposit your with the feet of your shrubs. It is free and in more very ecological.

The trap has beer functions very very well but there is polemic on the matter, he seems to attract the slugs of the neighborhoods according to certain people. Following search, I deliver a magic potion to you which I carried out in the Sixties for the slugs. It functions very well!
In a plastic bag, I place sound which I humidify well with methylated spirits, then I close again hermetically. In rainy weather, I spread my product. If you have many slugs in the garden, the result is spectacular. I did not test with the freezing to light the barbecues (not yet on the market at that time). Probably the sound can be replaced by another support. The methanol of the is the main element.
Are the slugs they alcoholics?
Recycling

To put branches of conifers (or simply much of spines) to move away the slugs
Nicole

When the starts-up of the hostas point the nose out of the ground in spring, to add on the ground around the starts up a fine layer of dust of rocks.

To protect your potfuls against the slugs, it is enough to surround the pot of copper yarn.

Very effective against slugs and snails in the absence of beer (I have an infant and I cannot leave beer in the garden!!), to turn over the remainder of a half grapefruit (emptied its flesh) near the plant has to protect and the undesirable ones will come to group there. There is no more which has to collect and to get rid some!

All the tricks anti-slugs containing of beer are to be banished because indeed the beer attracts the slugs up to eters; if you want to attract the slugs of the neighbor on your premise he does not have there better trick! That known as you can use it to attract your slugs apart from your kitchen garden!
Daniel

Against the slugs I disadvise beer because the hedgehogs adore it and I found all my turned over pots and bus: they made a true orgy and I do not know how they re-entered on their premises in the small hour!

Against the slugs and others of the kind: recover the haircuts and sow them on the ground to be protected. The slugs will be irritated by the hair and secrete until dehydration.
Alain P.

To eliminate the slugs, give them beer in a cap laid out in your plat bands. They some and will not go back from there.
Roland

I use beer (preferably brown) deposited in small caps, even of the stoppers of plastic bottle (milk, for example), or pots of side commercial. It is enough to shelter these soft foods of the rain.
Christian

Against snails and the slugs, a small trick to protect your starts up, it is enough to cut plastic bottles into two and to bore little holes and to then deposit them there on the growths.

With a with half filled of beer or sweetened water (to be renewed every 3 days) buried with ground short-nap cloth in your kitchen garden, you will undoubtedly attract the slugs which will come to be embedded there.

Use ground diatom which one implements all around the seedlings that we want to protect and preferably early in spring. The growths of your plant will quickly have covered this ground which is white. Generally it is not necessary to make other implementation during the summer.

Against the slugs having already to colonize the garden, a simple and ecological trick: cooking salt. It is enough to flush out the slugs and to powder a little salt to destroy the undesirable one. Attention however with the plants in the vicinity, salt is also one weeding.