Author:
Alice Brown
Date Of Creation:
23 May 2021
Update Date:
1 July 2024
Content
Most commercially available poisonous pills, liquids, or pellets intended for pesky snails and slugs can also be toxic to pets and children. Since slugs and snails love yeast, this article will show you one child- and pet-safe way to control them in your garden.
Steps
1 Place a lump of brewer's yeast or powdered yeast in a bowl of warm water and sugar. The vessel must be deep enough so that slugs and snails cannot get out of it. You can also buy containers designed specifically for this purpose from garden stores. The suggested mixture is two cups of warm water, a packet of dry yeast, and one teaspoon of salt and sugar. Salt can ensure that slugs and snails are dead before they get out. If you are going to toss slugs and / or mixture in your garden or compost heap, skip the salt; it will make your soil too salty. 
2 Dig a hole large enough for the container of the mixture to fit up to the neck. This is best done in a vegetable garden or garden, where slugs and snails are most common. 
3 Repeat this every few feet. Place these traps throughout your garden at six to eight feet (1.8-2.4 m) intervals, as the yeast will not attract them further away. 
4 Check and remove slugs and snails that are caught in the jar daily and dispose of them. They will crawl into the jar and drown. You can leave them in the garden to decompose and contribute to the organic composition of the soil, or put them in a compost pile (either way, grinding them will speed up the process, if you don't mind). 
5 Refresh the mixture regularly. It will be affected by rain and fumes, so replenish it as needed.
Tips
- This can also be done with beer instead of yeast mix. Ref name = "ipm">
What do you need
- Brewer's or powdered yeast
- Sugar
- Hot water
- Jar
- Digging tool
