How to Keep Slugs Out of Your Garden Naturally

Garden slugs love the taste of beer.

You can spend a great deal of time caring for your garden to help it flourish. But slugs can overtake it and eat your flowers and plants. You can rid the area of slugs without the use of chemicals or pesticides.

Things You'll Need

• Pie or cake tins
• Beer

Instructions

1. Bury disposable pie or cake tins in your flowerbeds or vegetable patch up to the edges. Place a pie tin every four feet.

2. Pour beer into the pie tins to a depth of ½ to 1 inch and leave them in place. The beer attracts slugs, which fall in and drown.

3. Dispose of the slugs each morning. Empty the beer and refill every three to four days.

Tips & Warnings

• Remove pie tins in the morning. Dead slugs will attract birds.

References

• Cornell University Cooperative Extension: Insect Traps and Barriers
• Rutgers: Slugs and Snails in the Vegetable Garden