I had just cleaned the deck, the BBQ and the hot tub cover the day before when my daughter came running in the house to tell me…

…”SLUGS are attacking EVERYTHING! I noticed that she was also rubbing her little fingers together and then I knew she had made the mistake of touching them. If you are familiar with the little slimy critters, once you get there slim on your hands or fingers, it’s nearly impossible to get off!

If that’s not bad enough, they leave a slimy trail everywhere they’ve been.

So I told her it’s time for us to go on the slug and snail patrol but first we sat down and did some research. We wanted to find some helpful information that we could use and share with our readers for ways to “Get Rid Of Slugs And Snails – without the use of chemicals.

Here’s what we found and we hope it is useful information for you as it was for us!

How to Get Rid of Slugs and Snails With Yeast

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Most of the commercially available, poisonous pellets, liquid or granules aimed at pesky snails and slugs may also prove toxic to pets, children and wildlife. Since slugs and snails love yeast, this article will show you a great, child and pet friendly means for dealing with them in your garden.

Steps

1. Put a lump of brewer's yeast or sprinkle powdered yeast into a jar of warm water and sugar. The jar must be deep enough to keep the slugs and snails from crawling out. You can also buy containers (traps) designed specifically for this purpose at garden supply stores. A suggested mixture is two cups of warm water, a packet of dry yeast, and one teaspoonful each of salt and sugar--the salt will help ensure that the slugs and snails die before they have a chance to escape. If you're going to dump the slugs and/or mixture in your garden or compost pile, skip the salt; it'll make your soil too salty.
2. Dig a hole large enough for the jar to sit in up to its mouth. This is best done in the vegetable patch or other garden space where the slugs and snails are patrolling.
3. Repeat every few feet. Put these traps throughout your garden at intervals of six to eight feet, since the yeast won't draw them in from any further than that.
4. Check daily and remove slugs and snails that have been attracted to the jar and dispose of them. They will have crawled into the jar and drowned. You can leave them in the garden to decompose and contribute to the organic matter of the soil, or put them in a compost pile (either way, crushing them will hasten the process, if you are not squeamish about doing so).
5. Renew the mixture regularly. It will be impacted by rain and evaporation, so top it up as needed.

Video

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Tips

• This can also be done with beer instead of a yeast mixture.

Things You'll Need

• Brewer's yeast or powdered yeast
• Sugar
• Warm water
• Jar
• Digging implement

Related wikiHows

• How to Get Rid of Garden Slugs
• How to Care for Slugs
• How to Care for Giant African Land Snails
• How to Find a Snail

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