They can be a real problem.These small, slimy creatures love to eat the leaves and roots of your plants.It's easy to get rid of garden snails with beer.If you fill a small container with beer, the snails will climb in and drown.
Step 1: There is a container for your beer trap.
The container has to be deep enough to allow slugs and snails to fall in.Beer won't evaporate too quickly if it's in deep containers.You can use a tuna tin, an empty aluminum pie tin or a small dish.The bottoms of plastic soda bottles are also suitable.
Step 2: The beer trap container needs to be buried in your garden to keep it above the soil.
The ground beetles that eat slugs might be killed if the container is below the soil level.The garden snails will find it difficult to enter the container if the lip is too high.You can use a trowel to dig a container in your garden.Put the container in the hole.If necessary, fill the hole with soil.
Step 3: The traps should be set three feet apart.
Beer traps only attract snails.The size of your garden will affect the number of traps you need to make.You will need nine beer traps if you have a garden with a perimeter of nine feet.
Step 4: The trap should be filled halfway with beer.
The snails don't care about what kind of beer they drink.Any good brew will do.If you wanted to make an alternative to beer, you could mix two cups of warm water and two ounces of flour.Instead of beer, use this mixture.If you don't have flour in the recipe, you can leave it out.
Step 5: Adding yeast to the trap will make it more attractive.
A few pinches of baker's yeast can make the trap even more attractive to garden snails.Put the yeast over the beer and mix it with a spoon.
Step 6: The traps should be emptied every few days.
If you want to keep the beer potent, you have to pour the old beer out and add new beer every couple days.You will have to empty your beer traps if it rains.There is no need to empty traps filled with dead snails.The decomposing bodies of their friends will attract other snails.You can put the beer and dead garden snails into your compost pile.
Step 7: Take out the top third of the bottle.
There are three holes in the bottom and top half.The holes should be equidistant from each other and have a diameter of less than 1 cm.You should be able to see them from the edge.
Step 8: The top half and the bottom half are where you should join.
The cap should be removed from the top and stuck into the bottom half.Make sure the holes line up by rotating the two pieces.To tie the two pieces together, pass a twist tie or thread through the holes.
Step 9: The container should be planted in the soil with the lip of it above the edge.
The other type of beer trap requires less digging since it is shorter.When the trap is placed in it, the top edge of the soil will rise one inch above the edge.The larger trap is the same as the regular traps.In other words, fill it halfway with beer, sprinkle some yeast in it, empty it every two or three days, and place it three feet from other traps.This trap could prove to be more effective than a regular beer trap since snails will be unable to leave once they get the beer.Adding a small fence around the garden can make it easier for them to eat vegetables and herbs.