How to Use Skunky Beer to Repel Slugs in a Vegetable Garden

Slugs are garden pests that destroy plants by eating away at their leaves and stems. These slugs reproduce by laying eggs near the soil surface that hatch over time into more pesky slugs, worsening your problem. Slugs hide under debris in the garden. such as logs or sticks, as well as in grass clippings and even weeds on the garden perimeter. Failure to control slugs may result in the destruction of your garden; however, traditional chemical control adds harmful residue to your vegetables. A safer, organic way to get rid of garden slugs is to control them with old beer.

Cups, dishes and old soda bottles
Skunky beer
Rake

Instructions

- 1
  Gather plastic cups, dishes and/or old soda bottles.
- 2
  Place the cups, dishes and bottles into the garden. Bury cups and dishes to their rims in the soil, but simply remove the lids from soda bottles and place them on their sides.
- 3
  Fill each cup and dish with the skunky beer. Fill the soda bottle half full of skunky beer, then place it back onto its side in the garden.
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  Allow the beer traps to sit overnight in your garden, luring slugs in. Slugs are attracted to beer, and once they are inside the traps, they drown.
- 5
  Empty the traps each morning, refilling them with more skunky beer and placing them back into the garden for the following night.
- 6
  Increase the amount of slugs repelled by raking up mulch and removing any logs, sticks or other forms of slug shelter in your garden. Keep garden weeds in check to prevent slugs from hiding out in them as well.

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