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How to Make & Position Slug Traps
Slug traps are an organic way to reduce slug numbers in the garden and save your brassica crops from constant attacks. Before getting started I should point out the slug traps only kill a small number of slugs and using them on their own wont be enough to solve your slug problem. Like anything in organic gardening, slug control requires a range and variety of solutions to work and they should be used in conjunction with other controls such as copper tapes, egg shells, etc.
To make your slug trap
- Take an old milk carton
- Cut it in half, keeping the bottom half
- Cut a series of ‘battlements’ along the top of the bottom half
- Fill the carton 1/3 full with old beer
Where to position the slug traps
- To have any success you will need a lot
- For 3 rows of cabbage you should have 9 slug traps
- Position three at each end of the rows and three in the centre of the rows
- When positioning you need to bury the bottom of the tray in the ground
- Have deep enough so that only an inch is above ground level
Next
- Once in position you need to cover the top
- Cover the slug slugs to prevent rain water getting in
- Old slate tiles are ideal and look the best
- Consider placing a small twig inside and pointing out one end
- This is to allow ground beetles escape their beery deaths
Finally
You will need to empty your slug traps every 2 or 3 days
- Not a nice job
- You can place the dead remains on a bird table
