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<!-- s:shock: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_eek.gif" alt=":shock:" title="Shocked" /><!-- s:shock: --> Must give it a try again. Do you plant the yogurt pots with tops level with the soil?

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Did you try with alcohol free beer ? I wonder whether it's the alcohol that attracts them, or the sweetness of the beer. Could be worth trying with unfermented wort, as well.
I'd love to do the test, but there's only one slug in my entire garden
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I hate slugs. Stupid slimy little gooey useless things. I had one of those beer trap things before, where you have 3 little resevoirs of beer in a box, with ramps to let them into the beer, but it was pretty rancid cleaning it out, especially if the sun baked the dead bastards over a weekend or whatever, so i got rid of it.

I'm no longer allowed to salt them, cos apparently 'it's very cruel' (she heard some slug expert - yes really - on the radio one day), although given that eat their own todgers, I'm not so sure any more that they have feelings. They really don't like blowtorches either though <!-- s:D --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_biggrin.gif" alt="" title="Very Happy" /><!-- s:D --> Besides the sadistic pleasures gained by salting/burning them, the big advantage of getting them pissed is that you don't have to go looking for them - they do the work for you! Score! Must start eating more yoghurts so <!-- s:D --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_biggrin.gif" alt="" title="Very Happy" /><!-- s:D -->

I've never seen so many dead slugs. They were queuing up to drown themselves in beer. It was disgusting... I was actually looking away while taking the photos. Eww

I've used homebrew to kill slugs before. Using homebrew to keep them off a hop plant seems to be perfect circular reasoning! It certainly works, but I've heard that they are actually somewhat fussy and they prefer reasonable quality ale to fizzy thin lager. I suggest that the slugs showed an equal preference for the beers in your trial because they were all of acceptable quality. It would be interesting to try it again with a Bud/Miller/etc. in the trial.

The damp weather this summer has resulted in slugs eating my entire garden. This experiment came a little too late for my plant life.