For non-toxic removal of slugs, he urges the simple technique of picking them off your plants and drowning them in a jar of salt water. (Slugs can’t swim, and the salt draws the moisture from their ...

You can quickly put a slug trap together by cutting an empty plastic bottle into a tiny beer-pond. Not only is it quick and easy, but it means you don ...

Place Beer Traps. Use beer to get rid of slugs and snails! Bury tuna fish cans or plastic yogurt cups in the dirt up to their rims, then crack a beer and fill the containers (the older and more ...

"Slugs are attracted to the odours and fermentation gases found in the beer, where they will crawl into the jar and drown." Since you only need a small amount of beer, the trick is relatively ...

A GARDENING expert has shared a useful hack using old jam jars and yoghurt pots to trap and kill slugs and snails in the garden. Adam Pasco said slugs and snails are the UK's "number one pest".

Collect as many slugs as you can find in a jar that has a few small air holes punched in the lid with a hammer and nail – and a few weed leaves for them to eat. The best time to hunt for slugs ...

Bury a glass jar in the ground with just the rim showing - and fill with beer. Slugs are drawn to it - particularly the yeast smell, so will fall in and drown. Read More Gardening.

I brought my peace lilies indoors last week for the winter, and now their young leaves have holes in them. I see webbing in the plant base and slime stuff as well, but I can’t find what is do… ...

Gardeners can drown slugs by putting them in a jar filled with water and keeping the lid screwed on tight. You can also use a sharp knife and cut the slug in half for the quickest death.