How to Use Beer to Get Rid of Snails in Your Garden

Snails can be extremely destructive in the garden. They eat new growth and seedlings before they even get a chance to grow. Snails also damage already established growth. Instead of using poisons that will put toxic chemicals in the ground and be a danger to pets, children and wildlife, try this method to help get rid of snails in your garden. It is easy to do and it won’t hurt the environment either.

Difficulty:

Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need

• Hand trowel
• Bowl or pie tin
• Beer

1. Look for snail trails around your plants. The trail looks like a glossy wet slimy line. Then take the hand trowel and dig a shallow hole to the depth and size of the non-breakable shallow bowl or pie tin in the area you see snail trails.

2. Pat the earth down around the hole so that It won’t crumble into the bowl or tin of beer.

3. Set the non-breakable shallow bowl or pie tin in the hole.

4. Fill the bowl or pie tin with any kind of beer. Fill it slightly below the top so the snails will have to crawl in to get to it. Cheap beer works just fine. Once the snails are in the beer they are trapped.

5. Clear out dead snails and keep putting beer in the bowl every two or three days as it evaporates. You can put more than one bowl of beer out in other areas that are tempting to snails.