Questions about using beer to kill slugs

[zjande]

I'm trying to keep the slugs from eating my strawberries. I just now dug a few shallow holes & placed small bowls in them so the bowl edges are at ground level. I filled them most of the way with beer. But here are my questions!

How do I water? Any watering I do will just dilute the beer out of the bowls. Do you cover your bowls every time you water?

When do I check them for slugs? Every morning? And then what? Do I just toss out every bowl of beer with the slugs & refill them all? I'll go through sooo much beer that way! (I'm using my DH's homebrewed good stuff right now, too! I'll have to get some cheap crap in a can...).

Does this shallow bowl half buried in the dirt sound like the best way? I see others that just set out shallow pans of beer. Does that work as well? That'd be easier for me to manage than keeping my little holes dug.

I read online that instead of beer you can just mix yeast, honey & water together instead of using beer. Has anyone tried this?

Thanks so much for your advice!

[Teenytoona]

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[Quirky]

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[mindymom]

you could try removing the bowls before you water, but i guess you will have to refill after rains.

please let us know what you do and how it works. i tried just sett
ing bowls out with beer (hey, they climbed into my pots, right?) but it didn't seem to work. i ended up just hand-plucking the slugs and dropping them in the bowls. i sure would like to hear about your fabulous success with this - we have sooooo many slugs this year!:

[PaulaJoAnne]

We always salted slugs. It melts them so fast. I wonder if a barrier of salt all around the edge of the bed would do the trick. Lay down some plastic to keep it out of the soil, and pour a line of salt all around.