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How To Get Rid Of Slugs! -
BY MARK S
I am living here in Maidstone, England and battle every summer
with slugs in the garden, BUT I have found the remedy to all
of your pesky problems with slugs whether it is large or small.
There are countless remedies
on the market which range from Nematodes to beer to harmful poisons
and concoctions that I would not trust alongside my herb garden
that is used for cooking and eating.
I stumbled upon this sure fire
remedy one day purely by chance and it has been the saviour of
my garden. It closely resembles the attractive properties of
beer but at an incredible rate without harmful poisons or expensive
nematodes....what is it? If you use beer, you will attract a
few, but you have to keep replenishing the beer everyday to keep
it fresh and attract the slugs.
Take a trip down to your local
bakery and tell the butcher that you want to purchase some of
his bakers yeast, or you can find it in your local grocery store
if they carry it. You have to have fresh bakers yeast, it comes
in a block and looks like white putty...dry yeast will not work.
Take the block of yeast and cut
off a chunk, mix it in warm water, add salt, and set it on your
back patio or near your garden. If you think about the beer remedy,
you will discover that the slugs are not attracted to the beer,
but the smell of the yeast in the beer.
I discovered this remedy one
day after baking fresh bread with fresh brewers yeast and then
decided to leave a piece of it out for the birds. I left it for
about an hour and before I knew what had happened, there were
hundreds of slugs making a bee line dash for the bread....EUREKA!
It's the yeast I said! I then went out and picked up each one
with a scoop and put them all in a jar of salt water and that
was that.
Be prepared...if you use this
remedy, you will have to keep checking it every hour cause if
there is a slug within a hundred yards of your garden, you will
attract it. |
