Slugs slugs and more slugs

red stuff is soluble white is insoluble. Apparently under a microscope it looks like razor wire.

Chasingmytail said:

some good stuff here - I have diatomaceous earth here but unsure which type it is. We use it in our lick buckets. How do you know which is what?

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I am in process of setting up website to sell Breakthru into retail trade. If you want a sample free PM me your details and I will send you some. Only condition is if it works you tell 4 other people.

Demented Dave's Marveluos Molusc trap

Just refreshed my very efficient beer traps and refined them to make life easier. One of the hassles of refreshing my traps has been removing them from the ground to empty and refresh them then having to re-dig the hole rep[lace the trap and smooth everything out again.

This morning I decided to make life easier using stuff I already have lying around in abundance (apart from the beer).

1. The raw materials
empty food tin, the ones with the ring-pull tops are best because they don't have sharp edge to deter the slug but do have a enough of a lip to stop them getting back out. Plastic core from a roll of bale wrap. galvanised 3" nail. Cheapest beer you can find, slugs aren't fussy it's the fermented sugar they're after.

2. Lay the can against the length of the tub and drill a hole where the end of the can reaches. Allow another inch or so and cut through the tube then slot the nail through the hole. If you've done it right then the can should slip into the tube so that it's top is flush with one end of the tube.

3. Dig a hole and place the tube in the ground so the top is level with the ground surface and pack the soil back around the tube making it as easy as possible for the slugs. Put the can in the tube and fill with beer to around half to a quarter of an inch from the top.

Putting the traps in a tube allows you lift empty and refresh the trap in seconds. The nail keeps the can rim level with the soil and tube top, it also keeps it raised from any debris that might slip down the tube when refreshing the trap . Best results are between crops and nearby cover.

Sounds like lots of hard work, I just spray them with my foliar feed and they will not touch it. Nemaslug according to my pro gardeners has been withdrawn for use on Food crops as the nematodes are showing up in the food chain.
Go to www.breakthruspray.co.uk

Once the traps are in place it's no effort at all, only cost is £1 a week on a fourpack of truly crap beer and I reckon It's doing a public service by taking the muck off the shelf.

KMA said:

Once the traps are in place it's no effort at all, only cost is £1 a week on a fourpack of truly crap beer and I reckon It's doing a public service by taking the muck off the shelf.

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Unfortunately I would drink the pounds worth of muck. its an acquired taste by the way! I drink in the no3 and no5 best micropubs in UK so am a bit biased.

In do like beer, I'm sipping from a bottle of 'Solway Mist' as I post but I suspect the stuff I give the slugs would come a poor 2nd to dog pee.

KMA said:

In do like beer, I'm sipping from a bottle of 'Solway Mist' as I post but I suspect the stuff I give the slugs would come a poor 2nd to dog pee.

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So that was you I saw leaving the pub in dumfrieshire on wenesday with a pint of gish beer covered in clingfilm. ha ha