Tips Slug Traps

Beth’s talk last week, at the Glorious Day Garden Club was about shade plants. And you can’t talk about shade plants without talking about hosta’s and when ever the subject of hosta’s comes up the subject of slugs seem to arise.

Slug traps are really the best and safest way to deal with slugs. Slug bait looks like pet food and dogs and cats that eat it can die. Diatomaceous earth and ashes have to be reapplied after every rain. So I think the slug trap is the best. Just set it out in the garden and when it gets ugly looking throw it away. Easy-peasy

Here’s a quick and easy way to make slug traps. Cut off the neck of a plastic bottle leaving part of the full sized diameter.




Add a bead of caulk or some silicone around the large diameter of the neck part so that when it’s stuck into the bottle its glued in place and is made water tight. Place neck part in the bottle and hold in place with some staples.



Fill with some beer and its ready to be placed in your garden, under a hosta or any plant with slugs. The slugs are attacked to the beer they’ll crawle in for a brew but wont be able to crawl out.

By Chuck