2 Slug and Snail Traps
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🗓️ 17 May 2020
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
Slugs and snails are the #1 pest for most gardeners, so there are some simple ways to cut down their populations in this episode for you.
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| 0:00.0 | Slugs and snails are some of the most destructive and damaging pests in the |
| 0:17.8 | garden and I get a lot of questions about how to deal with them. Now there are a lot of different traps out there, some better than others. The most |
| 0:26.7 | popular one that I've personally seen is a beer trap. Basically you just take a jar and you fill it with beer and you put it at ground level and they'll just fall in it. Now, I'm not trying to trash talk this trap, but it can attract a lot of different types of pests so it's not the best method |
| 0:47.6 | compared to some other ones although it certainly works and it works quite well |
| 0:52.3 | the thing about a beer or yeast trap is that it |
| 0:54.8 | attracts slugs and snails within maybe a circumference of four to five feet or so and you have to |
| 1:00.9 | keep filling it up. So you're going to need a lot of different beer traps if you have a large garden. |
| 1:07.0 | The next trap that you can try is you can just trap them by giving them the environment that they want to stay in. |
| 1:15.0 | So they want to hide during the day. |
| 1:16.9 | They're hiding under boards or flower pots. |
| 1:19.6 | A really cool trick is to take a melon rind, |
| 1:23.6 | invert it, and then just use that as a trap. |
| 1:26.8 | What you want to do a lot of the times with these traps |
| 1:29.5 | is collect them, so give them an environment where you know that's where they're going to want to go, |
| 1:35.6 | and then collect them from that area and you can dispose of them from there. |
| 1:39.3 | Wooden traps can be constructed, you can use 12 by 15 inch boards, but you need to raise them off the ground slightly or else the slugs and snails can't get underneath it, right? So you want to raise them off the ground by about an inch or so, then they'll get under it, and |
| 1:55.1 | then you just pick it up and destroy them, and then you're good to go. |
| 2:00.2 | So that's a really creative method that I think could work really well. |
| 2:04.0 | The problem with again the Beer Trap method is that it can attract other pests, |
| 2:09.0 | so maybe even scavenging rodents can start to be attracted by that. So you don't want to |
| 2:14.5 | broadcast that your garden is such a great place for other things to be. What you do |
| 2:19.2 | want to do is intelligently destroy the slugs and snails by using some of these alternative creative traps. |
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