Hi John,
All you need is a pinch of salt, so far it has made no difference to my
vegetables, I also just pick them up and drop then into saline solution, but
for the cost of coffee in the UK salt is cheaper. But the beer traps have
not been very effective all I seem to catch is beetles which are useful for
the garden. I all so hand pick caterpillars of my cabbages, and drown them
in paraffin. If I become rich I will try coffee, I have started to collect
coffee grouts when we have coffee and I will try that.
Paddy
"John Savage" wrote in message
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"paddys1" writes:
The best you can do is when the evening is damp and the slugs and snails
are
out, go out and sprinkle salt on them, watch them shrivel up and die. I

If you use laundry powder instead of the salt, the snails squeal as well.
But it is not going to be good for your garden to be adding salt to the
soil. It has been said that you can spray the snails with coffee and it
will kill them. I haven't tried it. Perhaps a pinch of instant coffee
sprinkled onto slugs will finish them off? An instant caffine hit might
turn them into frentic hyperslugs, burning themselves out in minutes?

The iron-based snail pellets are supposed to be safe, and don't fall
apart so quickly in wet weather like the old types seem to.
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