TRG 2012: How to Make the Ultimate Vegetable Garden Beer and Yeast Slug/Snail Trap

[@TheBushdoctor68]

It's a great video, but I have to comment on you stating that the snails 'fall in and drown'. That's not what happens and it may put people on the wrong track for catching snails. The yeast in the beer or other liquid actually kills the snail almost instantly. Simple as that. Once they died, they're obviously not able to climb out anymore. ;) I may have a tip for your setup. Put another bin inside the first and poke holes in that second one. Once you catch a lot of snails, you can simply take out the inner bin, let it drain (recycling the beer) and throw away the dead snails. It saves on beer, is less messy and doesn't require the user to re-burry each bin every time they empty it.

[@THERUSTEDGARDEN]

Slugs are tuff. I do use the iron phosphate slug pellets. They do good work on the baby tiny slugs. The beer traps get the big egg layers.

[@THERUSTEDGARDEN]

Hehe. Thats easy. Grow lettuce and kale and plant it really close together. Give them the food they like with a lot of shade cover and youll have plenty of snails. Grow hostas to on the shade side of your house. It might take a season but the follow year you will have plenty.

[@BubblyGumm]

Earwigs can cause similar damage to slugs, but they are usually a problem in summer. The slugs have eaten the leaves off of my million bells flowers that I bought instead of impatiens which are having a fungus issue this year. Slugs leave a telltale shiny slime mark on the plants that reflects in the sunlight. Thanks for the information.

[@THERUSTEDGARDEN]

Yes. The fall in and drown. It works but I have to say Iron Phosphate has done the best in my garden for killing slugs.

[@THERUSTEDGARDEN]

Yeah Mackeson's will work but that is a 4 pack beer that is outstanding, if memory serves me right. Cheap beer and yeast while you drink the Mackesons is what I would recommend.

[@oarfrost]

Many thanks for the upload Gary. I have noticed a couple of thinds. One, the yeast traps work fine and after a couple of seasons you start to run out of slugs. Two, and I can't find an explanation for this. as well as the slugs that have drowned, the traps are also surrounded by dead slugs. Whether or not they have had a megascoff and died of indigestion I don't know. But if anyone has an answer I would be interested in hearing it.

[@dkulikowski]

Thank you Gary for this great information. Smiles, Lark

[@THERUSTEDGARDEN]

Thanks. Does it work of the copper get aged and tarnished?

[@KnitBone]

You can use banana peels too. That's how I keep em out of the leafy greens. Even though it kills them to eat the peel it's like irresistible to them.

[@THERUSTEDGARDEN]

Kaila Webb Really what happens to them when the eat the peel?

[@KnitBone]

Oh I forgot to say that I use banana peels covered in either diatomaceous earth or corn meal, whichever I have on hand. Sorry about that. There are enzymes in the banana peel that are produced when the sugar begins to be digested by the yeast and microbacteria during the decomposition of the peel. It attracts the slugs and when they eat it, it dehydrates them. Some people say this is enough to kill their slugs but I live in a very moist climate so I toss some food grade DE or corn meal on the peels and that kills them pretty fast. After I've had the peels out for like a week, there's usually no more slugs on my plants so I bury the peels in either my roses or peas or whatever is growing that will enjoy the boost of potassium. Because I use food grade DE, the 89% silica content in it does any plant a great deal of good as well. It's a win win for my garden :]

[@THERUSTEDGARDEN]

Thanks a lot for the info. Ill have to see what I can find and fix a few beds up with copper. You have a solution to the white moth that lays the eggs of the green cabbage looper. Maybe Australia isn't cursed by this moth.

[@kayk7493]

Many thanks for this info. I read recently that copper doesn't work.

[@THERUSTEDGARDEN]

Baited pellets with iron phosphate changed the game for me. That is all I use now. If interested... I have a new Logo T-Shirt for 2021 at my seed and garden shop. Grey with my intro logo. I really like it www.therustedgarden.com/search?type=product&q=T+shirt

[@THERUSTEDGARDEN]

extra yeast is the key. That is what they smell.

[@THERUSTEDGARDEN]

BT has work well for my cabbage moths.

[@FrostPlutarc]

Gary, have you ever used Sluggo? Works well albeit not as cheap as traps. What I normally do is set traps or Sluggo (lazy man's way) well before I transplant. I find it controls their number before I even get them in the ground. Mind you I live in SoCal and I don't have a big problem with slugs. For the beer trap I used small dollar store saucers. I always come up with something to cover/shade the trap. Do you think, in your experience, that putting something over the trap unnecessary?

[@THERUSTEDGARDEN]

+FrostPlutarc I use iron phosphate now. It saved my garden greens. It might be used in sluggo but is snail bait with ingredient iron phosphate. Don't use metalydahyde or however your spell. Way to toxic. Iron phosphate is better.

[@FrostPlutarc]

+Gary Pilarchik (The Rusted Garden) Up to what I know sluggo does contain Iron Phosphate. Thank you for the video Gary!

[@citic101]

if the slugs eat sluggo and die they are eaten before they die by hedgehogs or toads / frogs.

[@THERUSTEDGARDEN]

Bt worked for my cabbage moths. Had the best year. But they lay all year long in my area. Missed a 2 week period and they were eating my plants.

[@THERUSTEDGARDEN]

How do you treat for earwigs.

[@Dav123xyz]

I ve just used makeson's stout...it was I could get. Won't that work?

[@Dav123xyz]

i kept some marigolds behind in pots by mistake i kept them near to some damp newspaper. One evening I caught anenormoius slug with marigold flower in its chops. Don't youi worry they go for marigolds. Thats what the lady from home base said, too. She was quite certain. Bit of mystery now.

[@bobbymalta73]

CHEERS MATE THKS FOR SHARING I LIKE IT!

[@THERUSTEDGARDEN]

I looked up Bok Choy a bit back and found we in the US also call it Pak Choy, Pak Choi, Bak Choi... Mostly an American mess up in language. Anyway it means white vegetable in translation. Im good with Bok Choy. Though my brain freezes when doing videos, Im lucky I didnt call it Sok Soy.

[@Dav123xyz]

I ve yoghurt here...will that work?

[@bradleycruz6782]

can you use just water and yeast? If not is there anything else you can use as I am only a teenager and can't get my own beer

[@THERUSTEDGARDEN]

+Brok3n Silence Yep the yeast is what attracts them and they will drown in water.

[@Earleyyourmean]

I heard of many people using yEast packets and sugar in water.

[@pippin3634]

Thank you for your video about getting rid of snails. They are dreadful thinks that ruins my plants. I work hard on my flower bed and the made mince meat of my dahlias and lilies this season. Not happy with that so thanks.

[@THERUSTEDGARDEN]

Hmmm. Might not be slugs. Less you have some beast of a slug. The pellets with a slug trap should net you a good look at what it is.On a side note. the slugs I get dont touch my marigolds. I wish I could be more help.

[@GardeningforBeginners]

a lot of comments say slugs dont like light beer

[@scrumptiousjdp]

Or you can use a bottle with holes cut in it partly buried so that the holes are flush with the ground. You lose less solution to evaporation that way

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[@THERUSTEDGARDEN]

Snails are cool less they are munching your garden to nothing. If they just learned to share and eat one leaf at a time...

[@Dav123xyz]

we shall see!!

[@Dav123xyz]

No I was able to get a single/half can. I'm off beer anyway unfortunately (on the wagon). I ve been able to sort sverl dishes wuth theone can...no watste so that's good and I hope I'll catch the little tw*ts. My marigolds have been shrinking faster than they have been growing and I'm concerned about the quanitiy of slug pellets I'm chucking round.

[@nmanon4960]

How about an after so we can see what you caught!?!?

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[@hmpimp7937]

dose it kill them

[@Dav123xyz]

...also have xcellent homing instincs. I foiund one very large one which had just dislocated a marigold flower.....right in its gob. I wasn't feeling to well disposed towards it so took it 50 feet or so. It was obviousy heading back even so .... Regretably eventually it had substantially further to travel after that and I think it might have thought better of it. (or maybe not.....) Not keen on kiling them....messy...

[@CraftDutch]

will the snails die?

[@THERUSTEDGARDEN]

Yes they drown.

[@CraftDutch]

Gary Pilarchik you got any tips on how i can catch tham alife because i want to make tham race and stuff like that

[@IdiotBoxProductionsTV]

+CraftDutch snails don't drown. although the beer may be slippery or something :P

[@CraftDutch]

+IdiotBoxProductionsTV well i tryd this and thay all died :{

[@IdiotBoxProductionsTV]

***** ok :P :(

[@sarahgittel]

why not sprinkle salt

[@THERUSTEDGARDEN]

Salt can be damaging to soil but you also have to see them.

[@Dav123xyz]

I haven't found the little sods and i ve been oiut at night. I just caught one little snail. Thats not done that damage.

[@deanboss5305]

YEAH I AM collectinh snails to save them like a mini buisness who is with me

[@miguelcasasarrojo8135]

Hey, i´ve seen your comments on several videos. What exactly do you do?

[@Dav123xyz]

Hasn't worked for me....but then I don't now think it's slugs, though, I''m f**ked if know what else it is. Subject my marigolds any one?? Geraniums and lobelia and impatiens aren't being touched. I ve slung a rook of pellets around, too, not a one.... (A good ace for time lapse photography. I can't really spend more time on it.)

[@sega310982]

I just hope it doesn't sting when they fall in. Or at least I hope they get drunk REALLY fast.

[@sunbugs]

Add salt to the beer, they will zap them after they get tipsy! BEWARE, it is kinda like taking advantage of a drunk girl.

[@xXMeecrobXx]

Hehe Germany knows best use whitebeer!

[@englandinacan]

Yeah look at cabbage moths. They were laying 10 eggs on every leaf of my tiny 4 leaf broccoli seedlings. Smart of the moth, its young will eat themselves out of a home and die. And my broccoli will amount to nothing. Huge waste of energy for both me and the moth!

[@fusionstar916]

Bok Choy... Unless your talking about something else.