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I was smugly thinking I don't have many slugs here, as I hadn't seen any this spring, but boy was I wrong.
I was tipped about mixing one liter of lukewarm water with one packet of dry yeast, three tablespoons of sugar, and three table spoons of flower. It makes a thin batter, that I poured into containers and placed strategically in the slug motorway line (I have found that they come in from one particular direction, as two plants are particularly attacked). I placed out six containers in total, and I've probably caught 100 slugs in them. It works because flour is poisonous to slugs, and the yeast and the sugar attracts them.
The rain dilutes it, obviously, so I will see if I can find something to place over the containers.
I was tipped about mixing one liter of lukewarm water with one packet of dry yeast, three tablespoons of sugar, and three table spoons of flower. It makes a thin batter, that I poured into containers and placed strategically in the slug motorway line (I have found that they come in from one particular direction, as two plants are particularly attacked). I placed out six containers in total, and I've probably caught 100 slugs in them. It works because flour is poisonous to slugs, and the yeast and the sugar attracts them.
The rain dilutes it, obviously, so I will see if I can find something to place over the containers.
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