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The horrible cheap cider that we had in the cupboard gave these creatures a last drink.
Slug pubs are very cheap and sufficient way of keeping slugs at bay and without using chemicals like slug pellets that we and wildlife inadvertently ingest when we eat our homegrown fruit and vegetables.
It's surprising what slug bait/ grog we have hiding at the back of our cupboards. Old cans of beer or fizzy drink. Don't worry about its sell by date. Just fill up those plastic takeaway trays with your unwanted liquid and watch those slugs disappear.
Do you use slug pubs?
You are selling this, just need to get hubby onboard to empty them for me.
ReplyDeleteThe slug pubs are working wonders in this very wet weather Marlene. Empty them for the birds to find and replenish them again with beer or pop.
ReplyDeletenot any more. Hedgie seems to be taking care of slugs at home - we just have to keep the Hedgie supplementary diner buffet bar stocked up.
ReplyDeleteI have got Hedgehog envy Tigger's Mum. I never see them apart from flat roadkill. I believe frogs also like slugs and snails. Maybe a wildlife pond would help?
ReplyDeleteYou have a fine crop of slugs there, Dave.
ReplyDelete(I often wondered where the Slug and Lettuce pub chain got their name)
Quite a good catch JayCee. Apparently the pub chain is having financial problems. I like Wetherspoons when I visit Blighty.
DeleteI have tried slug pubs in the past and though they caught a few slugs, they were not very effective. Perhaps if I used Newcastle Brown Ale I might have more success.
ReplyDeleteIf I could get hold of some Newky Brown I would be drinking it tonight instead of Carlsberg. Why can you buy beer in Irelan from anywhere in Europe but not from England? Bloody Brexit.
ReplyDeletePerhaps if they changed the name of Newcastle Brown Ale to Organic Slug Killer, it would be more readily available.
DeleteI would buy it purely for keeping slugs and 🐌 s off my veggies. Honest.
ReplyDeleteDoes it work for snails too? We've got plenty of plonk we could use. Humans drink it but slugs might turn up their slimy noses.
ReplyDeleteFunnily enough Linda my slug pubs haven't caught any snails this week. Another organic way is to go out at night with a torch and pick off any lurking slugs and snails and put them in a bucket and feed them fo the hens and ducks. They love them. I suppose we would get slug and snail flavoured eggs in the morning. At least they will be fresh.
ReplyDeleteDrowning their sorrows, are they?
ReplyDeleteA very appropriate idiom Debby. Drinking to forget about the wind and the relentless rain. Do you have slugs and snails across the pond?
ReplyDeleteI won't try them, I worry about what might happen to our blue-tongue lizards if they should try getting a drink from them. There aren't mnay lizards left in these gardens, too many have been run over by cars.
ReplyDeleteYou have lizards River? I have only seen newts here in Ireland. I have read that lizards eat slugs and snails like frogs and hedgehogs do.
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