Slug control...i only have one beer

[moodusnewchick]

I'm going to put out beer tonight for the slugs. it didn't occur to me how damaging these things are. Problem is, I only have one beer in the fridge. I'm from CT, we don't sell alcohol on Sundays. Are there any other fermented joys I can use for slugs? I have plenty of wine!!

 

[Akane]

Your going to feed wine to slugs?

By the time you get an answer it will probably be monday anyway. Just buy some tomorrow on your way home from work. I doubt the slugs are going to do that much more damage in less than 24hrs.

 

[Fowl-Language]

I suggest you put your feet up, drink that last beer, and buy more for the slugs tomorrow...

 

[d.k]

* Use it, pour it through a strainer, and use it again. Feed the beer-marinated drowned slugs to your party-hardy ducks or chickens-- TOGA! TOGA! TOGA! TOGA!

 

[gumpsgirl]

Just dump salt on the slugs. It will make them dry up. Problem solved.

 

[whitecra]

I have slugs in my house. I don't like them but didn't know that they were bad. What do they do?
Chris

 

[gumpsgirl]

Quote:
They are damaging to plants and vegetation.

 

[moodusnewchick]

d.k :

* Use it, pour it through a strainer, and use it again. Feed the beer-marinated drowned slugs to your party-hardy ducks or chickens-- TOGA! TOGA! TOGA! TOGA!

so i can feed the marinated slugs to ducks? someone wrote on another post that the fermentation (mold) would kill them.​

 

[d.k]

* I've never heard that, and I know people have used the grain/hops leftovers as feed. Sometimes, while still warm. . . If anything I think it would be too much of the alcohol, just like with people.

 

[AngelzFyre]

Drink the beer and put the salt on the slugs!!
Seriously, I put oyster shell around all my plants that the slugs bother and it works great. They used to really damage my hostas and green pepper plants until I mounded up some oyster shell around the base of each and now they don't touch them.
Hope this helps.