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godkingross wrote:

Bennewby;924555 Wrote:
Does anyone have any good ways to deter slugs? Preferably without using
slug pellets.... My strawberries are looking really good and healthy but
I have noticed quite a few leaves are being eaten and there are slug
trails on them

My dad used to use those little plastic tubs you get Chinese food in,
sink them flush to the soil near his veggies and fill em with cheap beer
combined with hand picking them from all over the garden at night.


If slugs are a huge problem, you need to remove their habitat by raking
up your mulch in spring and composting it. Then, start your garden in
open soil, and wait until early summer to add a fresh blanket of mulch.
You still may have problems because your soil may be well stocked with
slug eggs. A few years ago, a U.S. Department of Agriculture scientist
found that crabgrass contains a substance toxic to slugs. Since then,
many backyard slug slayers have experimented with crabgrass cookies,
which are made by mixing chopped, dried crabgrass leaves with corn bran,
cornstarch and beer. The baits are then placed beneath plants, where the
slugs eat them and die.

Another option is spraying coffee on plants that are plagued with slugs.
Caffeine in any form ‹ including a few No-Doz tablets mixed with water ‹
is a slug neurotoxin that will kill these unwanted pests.

When you¹re down to only a few slugs, you can fall back on the
traditional organic control, which is to trap them with beer. Put an
inch or so of any beer in a cup, bury it in the garden nearly to the
rim, and collect your drowned slugs in the morning. Or, put some beer in
plastic drink bottles and lay them on their sides in the garden. The
slugs will crawl in and drown. Dump them out and start over again every
few days.
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Or if you are tired of night patrol, see:
http://www.ecoact.org/PDF/ipm_factsheets/SnailSlg.101.pdf

and look at the section about Iron Phosphates.

It is only poisonous to snails and slugs, and has been added to human
food as a nutrient enhancer.
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