Control Slugs In Garden |Slug Trap That WORKS!|

[@theblues5024]

This actually works. And the 3 foot radius is about right. First thing is to use nematodes then put out the beer traps. I'm in the UK and I used 2.27 litre (four pint) plastic milk containers with the rectangular hole about 8-10 cm from the bottom. Works a treat. Thanks and well done.

[@FastGardeningMichigan]

I've got a bunch I made last year out now. Between these and garlic spray slugs have not been a problem

[@toniapps1787]

Used beer traps for the first time and got 51 in the first 2 nights....didn't believe it would work but it was!

[@FastGardeningMichigan]

They love beer. The raccoons like to drink the beer when it's full of slugs 😂

[@tracyruth4247]

I'm going to have to try this...great idea! I might try using water/soda bottles and put one next to each plant. Great way to reuse plastics! Thank you so much for sharing your idea! ✌😊

[@FastGardeningMichigan]

That would work!

[@tanyabriggs8969]

I made many of the soda bottle ones. But like the cheap dollar store "butter dish" size. Use a heat tool to melt an opening halfway up. I like soda bottles but neighbors thought I was putting trash in my rose beds. So made less conspicuous in beds people walk by.

[@austin2842]

The mulch could be encouraging the slugs. Reason I say this... I asked Charles Dowding about mulching my vegetable garden with wood chip, and he replied that slugs and other pests are a risk. I ended up mulching with straw and grass instead. No slugs. However, I mulched my strawberry patch with wood chips and I do get slugs there.

[@FastGardeningMichigan]

The slugs are definitely from mulching. They are actually worse where I used grass clippings and straw but they are in the wood chips as well. There's a tradeoff though. I don't have to water. Just planting and pruning. Pests are a common problem with young permaculture systems but they eventually balance out. Just starting to see the frogs show up as well as various predatory bugs. It's odd they're in your strawberries. That's the only spot they don't mess with in my garden!

[@musicwithgrandma7207]

I’m in the GR area and could have said the same things! Now, my garden is covered in straw, which could be considered a slug farm, but it’s so good against weeds that I don’t want to abandon it. There’s a lovely cucumber trellis standing empty. I, too, will start them much earlier in the greenhouse next year (as I’ve done in the past but lost my mojo this spring for a minute). I have traps all over (made with a yeast mixture instead of beer) but we’ve been getting short, very hard rains regularly, necessitating replacing the solution. I see your method is impervious to rain. I have put the copper scrubbies around my dahlias, too late, it seems. I have yet to try the trapping methods-upside down clay pots, boards, etc, and should make the toad havens I’ve seen on other videos. We carry on!

[@FastGardeningMichigan]

My radishes I let bolt and leaving thistles has stopped the damage! I started cucumbers in trays outside then planted, surrounded with copper wire, egg shells, and crushed oyster. They all survived and have cucumbers forming. Did the same with zucchini. I dont plant cucumbers or zucchini until july anyway to prevent cucumber beetles, squash bugs, and vine borer so thankfully the issue was resolved. I'd never give up the mulch. Haven't had to water since June

[@musicwithgrandma7207]

@@FastGardeningMichigan Thanks for the suggestions. It seems constant vigilance is called for at crucial times!

[@tanyabriggs8969]

Slug warrior here in the PNW. You will think I'm crazy but I've tried your method. Works pretty good, but I'm not seeing the tiny ones that hide in my lettuce till they get fat. So I grew a slug bioweapon. Couldn't get nematode product. So I tried growing my own. Amazing results the following year. In fact last year I couldn't find enough to brew my solution. Basically I collect snails cause easy to see. Put them in a covered container I can carry around. A coffee or creamer container is good cause it's dark inside. I drop my creatures in to some water with a few floating lettuce leaves. Keep them alive till they die and release their nematodes. I'm talking multiple jugs! Front, back, side gardens all have easy to grab jug. After some time the sludge of liquified slugs/snails/lettuce get mixed into waterer and watered around everywhere. I've had very little problem the following season. Try it. Might work with the beer sludge. I don't know. But I believe in composting my enemies. 🤣

[@FastGardeningMichigan]

That is a very interesting concept. I forgot to get cheap beer and just put out a couple dozen brassicas. I surrounded them with oyster shells. Seemed to work well last year.

[@Poppy_love59]

Hah, thanks you just invented a use for my Busch pisswater !

[@FastGardeningMichigan]

I drink whiskey so beer expires at my house. Had plenty!

[@casper1240]

Another problem with beer trap traps is they also kill useful Beetles good idea

[@FastGardeningMichigan]

I have slugs climb a wheelbarrow to get to seedlings so I figured they'd have no issue going up a couple inches of plastic. I never liked the idea of ground bugs falling in. Rather let the slugs climb in

[@keithhooper6123]

Get two clay flower pots,one smaller then the other.Soak with water ,and place upside down,obviously smaller inside larger pot.Slugs will accumulate in the gap between the two pots.

[@FastGardeningMichigan]

There are so many prime hiding places in my garden with logs, bark, cardboard, and woodchips that slugs don't need to travel for shelter. I accidentally grew a thick radish cover crops and the slugs are focusing on that now, sparing my brassicas. Bird pressure is also higher. It's starting to balance out

[@Krispy1011]

you want to get rid of snails and slugs - get a pie pan and fill it with beer and put it in your flower bed or vegetable garden in the evening - the next morning - if there are slugs in your flower bed or garden, the pie tin that was filled with beer will be filled with slugs and snails - I tried it and it works every time. You will be amazed at how many slugs and snails are in your flower beds and gardens, especially if they never have been treated for them.

[@FastGardeningMichigan]

That's what I'm doing with these jugs but these won't fill with water when it rains since the opening is on the sides.

[@Krispy1011]

@@FastGardeningMichigan It definitely works - I'm just telling how I do it and I check the pie tins in the morning and never put them out if there is a chance of rain - keep the good videos coming!

[@mydogeatsjeans7216]

Slugs are the worst this year, guess I'll hafta share a beer or two.

[@FastGardeningMichigan]

I got them Hamm's but ended up drinking a lot of it. Try garlic spray as well! It's a game changer

[@mydogeatsjeans7216]

@@FastGardeningMichigan Haha, i'll try garlic spray, beer is too expensive in Ontario. Thanks 😊

[@jayduplessis7698]

Very clever!

[@FastGardeningMichigan]

Thanks. Just a different twist on an old method. I need to find something that doesn't look as ugly!

[@JesusLuvzU2]

Have you tried chop and drop your big leaf greens a few feet away from your garden where they are attacking,they love the greens that are rotting so it should detour them away

[@FastGardeningMichigan]

Yes! I toss large dock leaves around and they swarm to them but they are only equally as appealing as my plants so they go to whatever is closer. Potash is also mildly effective. With 6" of rotting mulch my garden is a slug nursery amd these seem to be my best way to deal with them. No slugs on plants near these past few nights

[@Hick-A-BillyLLC]

😂🤣😂!!!! Racoons are alcoholics!!! I'll remember that this trapping season!

[@FastGardeningMichigan]

Last problem I thought Id have is raccoons drinking the beer!

[@andydundas2443]

My wife says I'm an over-thinker and she's probably right. I'm thinking those "pickled" slugs would still make good compost. It'll just take longer for them to break down.

[@FastGardeningMichigan]

They do go in the compost! A little fermentation doesn't hurt

[@user-te7zz8mv3x]

save your beer! i use rice water instead 😆. being a big rice eater, i frequently have to rinse out the starch in rice before cooking. so each time i cook rice, i collect the rice water in a bucket to refill my traps.

[@FastGardeningMichigan]

I've got more beer than rice 😂

[@TheKrispyfort]

Oh, thank you. I didn't want to purchase beer 😅

[@EasyEarPiano]

PlantAbundance recommends diacotemus earth for pesky WineCaps Shiitake gobblers

[@FastGardeningMichigan]

I stopped using it because it was harming good bugs. Chipmunks ate all the Italian oysters that popped up from the ground. I found that odd

[@FastGardeningMichigan]

@@EasyEarPiano i dont think it would hurt them. Some people put it in chicken feed as a dewormer

[@johnw5242]

It's also great for killing fleas.

[@joette5333]

Go out about midnight with a flashlight and a container ......I picked HUNDREDS up each night until the damage stopped

[@FastGardeningMichigan]

Have been. Doesn't even put a dent in the population here!

[@raytry69]

We fight against slugs with Indian runner ducks.

[@FastGardeningMichigan]

Not enough space for ducks for me here unfortunately.

[@fredrickvoncold]

I didnt know your slugs were that bad. I have never had a problem with them in 6b . I have planted armenian cucumber for the first time and now have a bunch of cucumber beetles . I have never seen them in the past. I think one of my cucumber plants got bacterial wilt . I dont know if the plants will survive that .Hope you find a solution .

[@FastGardeningMichigan]

Last year cucumber beetles and squash bugs gave most of my cucumbers bacterial wilt. Saggy leaves and white fur grew on the plants. All it takes is one bite from an infected bug and the plants are toast. I am growing burpless varities this year which aren't supposed to attract those bugs but the slugs eat everything! Didn't have any slug issues last year. The lack of rain has really sent the bugs searching for water inside plants

[@CountryGeek-hr8tk]

Amaranth is supposed to attract the bugs that eat cucumbers. They'll eat the amaranth leaves instead, although the videos I saw the amaranth just kept on trucking.

[@Godzgirl23]

Diatomaceous Earth

[@FastGardeningMichigan]

Diatomaceous earth is harmful

[@CountryGeek-hr8tk]

I think you meant *food grade* Diatomaceous Earth. Farmers often use it to de worm everything on the farm, including their kids and themselves, by adding it to the diet of whatever is being dewormed. The non-food grade is treated with chemicals and is highly toxic.

[@luminarygoddess8642]

My beans 😢 I have planted seeds multiple times and I thought it was chipmunks but it was the slimy ones

[@FastGardeningMichigan]

I have to overseed because of them. They take out 75% of any sprouts

[@luminarygoddess8642]

@@FastGardeningMichigan I had blossoms, it has been bit sad 😢 I will try again today, thank you for the advice!

[@lurklingX]

slugs hate copper tape. you can do a ring of it around your seedlings and plants. in a proper planter or boxed in garden, it's easy enough to attach on the structure. (sidenote: i'd read that if you water your garden in the evening, change that up to watering in the daytime. at night is more advantageous for slugs.) i never dealt with slugs till this house, in GA, and damn but they are everywhere. don't know where they even all come from. they're small but having had so many even in the flower garden is making me get kinda cringe over them at this point. and before, i never cared and just saw them as shell-less snails. great vid!!

[@FastGardeningMichigan]

Ive considered copper. It's very odd here, even in drought a heavy dew would coat everything at night thus making the slugs feel very comfortable. I am going to convert my annual planting areas to raised compost instead of grass mulch. I did find in spots I did that the slugs still come but not as bad. Potash seems to deter them as well

[@shannonnichols4721]

Dude I have same issues but only on my cannabis plant what can I do

[@FastGardeningMichigan]

That's odd. Slugs didn't bother mine. Set a couple of these beer traps around them. You can also put copper wire on the ground around the base of the plants. They don't like to cross copper. Along with copper wire I'd toss some crushed egg shells and crushed oyster shell on the soil. When I used the wire, egg shells, and oyster shells it was enough to keep slugs away to get my cucumber seedlings to grow. Without it they ate everything to the ground in one night.

[@DJ-lp6bh]

Have any of you ever tried coffee? Either grounds or a solution to spray? If so what were your results?

[@FastGardeningMichigan]

Have not. Nobody drinks coffee here 😂

[@musicwithgrandma7207]

I’ve tried coffee. Not effective.

[@FastGardeningMichigan]

@@musicwithgrandma7207 wood ash, egg shells, , a ring of copper wire, and crushed oyster shells slow them down long enough for sprouts to get big enough to survive slug attacks. Not a fun process though when doing it around hundreds of plants

[@TheKrispyfort]

Beer traps - it's not racoons. You have Australians.

[@FastGardeningMichigan]

😂

[@Godzgirl23]

Salt. SALT.

[@verygoodverynice8295]

my cannabis plant is getting decimated by slugs too 😭

[@FastGardeningMichigan]

I've been experimenting with new methods this year. Crushed oysters shells and garlic/onion/cayenne spray work great to keep them away!

[@lurklingX]

🤣 mature audience plants

[@FastGardeningMichigan]

Gotta fool the algorithms!

[@Godzgirl23]

Don't sell your chickens or their eggs. SLUGS? GROSS DUDE

[@FastGardeningMichigan]

Do you know what chickens eat??