{"id":10607,"date":"2012-06-05T12:52:04","date_gmt":"2012-06-05T17:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/?p=10607"},"modified":"2015-02-21T17:39:52","modified_gmt":"2015-02-21T22:39:52","slug":"how-to-eliminate-garden-slugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/?p=10607","title":{"rendered":"How To Eliminate Garden Slugs"},"content":{"rendered":"

We have an easy and successful way to permanently eliminate slugs from ruining your gardens. \u00a0It involves the use of one product and is safe and non-toxic. \u00a0A while back I wrote about building a square foot garden for the side of our house. \u00a0You can read about that here.<\/a>\u00a0While the garden was trying to grow and thrive, we were being inundated with a little pest that was causing big problems.<\/h3>\n

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Here is a current view of our garden. \u00a0We are thrilled with how much is growing especially since we started a lot of these veggies and herbs from seeds inside.<\/h3>\n

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This is another view of how the garden is doing. \u00a0Our big concern when we were putting in our garden was deer and bunnies. \u00a0Even though we live in the city of Syracuse, we do have deer. \u00a0One night I was coming home and saw a family of six literally walking down our sidewalk. Knock on wood we haven’t had any issues. We did plant marigolds throughout our garden as a precaution.\u00a0We have another creature though that is doing some damage.<\/h3>\n

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The slugs have moved into our garden. \u00a0I have seen slugs around but now I am really noticing them. \u00a0My mom mentioned a little tip that I thought I would try. \u00a0Get the slugs drunk.<\/h3>\n

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I started with beer and a couple small tupperware containers.<\/h3>\n

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I took the tupperware and buried the container so it was level with the dirt. \u00a0I then filled the container up with beer.<\/h3>\n

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Success!! I put the containers and beer in the garden last night, and by morning the slugs had found their way to the beer and decided to stay and get drunk. \u00a0It is recommended to change the beer out daily at dusk because slugs are picky and do not like stale beer. \u00a0I only needed to do this trick three nights in a row, and the slug problem was completely eliminated. \u00a0In order to make sure they wouldn’t return the following year, I repeated the process when I transplanted our seedlings to the garden in the spring.<\/h3>\n

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Do you have problems with things eating your garden? \u00a0If so any tips you would like to share with us?<\/h3>\n

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We have an easy and successful way to permanently eliminate slugs from ruining your gardens. \u00a0It involves the use of one product and is safe and non-toxic. \u00a0A while back I wrote about building a square foot garden for the side of our house. \u00a0You can read about that here.\u00a0While the garden was trying to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10607"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10607"}],"version-history":[{"count":42,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26327,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10607\/revisions\/26327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}