|
|
09-04-2010, 06:01 AM
|
|||
|
|||
Beer trap
Hi all How do i make a beer trap ?
Thanks Andrew  
|
|
09-04-2010, 09:42 AM
|
||||
|
||||
|
Hi Andrew, a homemade beer trap is dead easy. Cut a plastic drinks bottle in half and using the lower half cut out sections around the top so that it looks like the castellations or turrets on the top of a castle. These cut outs are where the slugs slide in. Sink the half bottle into the ground so that the cut out turrets are just above the soil level, then friendly insects don't fall in by mistake, pour in the beer and place a saucer on the top which stops other insects dropping in and also keeps the rain off. That's it - done!
 The slugs on my allotment enjoyed Tesco's value lager!! 
__________________
Lesley Jay Vegetable Growing Guides Vegetable Container Gardening Guide Potato Days & Seed Swaps 2012
|
|
17-04-2010, 12:32 AM
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
|
17-04-2010, 01:26 AM
|
||||
|
||||
|
you lot are just cruel
 put egg shells round your treasured plants of choice. slugs don't like the sharp surface but are not killed by it
|
|
17-04-2010, 02:01 PM
|
||||
|
||||
|
Quote:
But they die happy!! My other method for slugs are secateurs........... 
__________________
Lesley Jay Vegetable Growing Guides Vegetable Container Gardening Guide Potato Days & Seed Swaps 2012
|
|
17-04-2010, 03:47 PM
|
||||
|
||||
|
Quote:
plus i like to drink my beer myself at least the secateurs are fast i suppose. i gave up a long time ago, you can kill them but more will arrive just accept they will munch something and try to direct them towards plants you don't care for.
|
|
17-04-2010, 10:48 PM
|
||||
|
||||
|
each to their own etc, but, i for one, don't like to cause unnecessary suffering
|
|
26-04-2010, 02:40 PM
|
|||
|
|||
|
I till & let the Birds eat them.It works, FRITZ
|
 |
| Tags |
| beer trap, slugs |
| Thread Tools | Search this Thread |
| Display Modes | |
|
|
Linear Mode
