I may have overdone it!

[quark1]

I have often written about the bargains my lovely local charity shops have and today they had a cracking good selection of gardening bits - donated by the hardware store as 'slow sellers' - very generous of him I think.

So there they were - what I thought were 5 slug traps which you fill with beer slops (currently going into compost as accellerator) and let them drown in drunken oblivion all in nice little boxes with instructions. Right - I've got a spare fiver in my purse - I'll take the lot and go to town on the little boogers this year. No more slug armadas across my bit of grass and crops!

Whilst waiting in a shop to be served I looked down and saw that each box was marked 3 units. Heavens that shop must really think I'm inundated (possibly a little mad) now - but with 15 mini Hotel Californias for the slimy little devils to check into - there sure better NOT be a slug problem for me this year!

[dogsbody]

Crikey - that's a lot of beer slops. Sounds like the slugs will be drinking more than you!

Do they not get more rowdy the drunker they are?

I use the chicken / frog / toad / bird suppression method so am able to drain my glass (and fall asleep quietly in the corner)

[Jeanied]

Hi quark1 - do you, by any chance, run a pub? Just wondering where you are going to get all the slops from!

[ginger ninger]

Well done that bargin spotting grape, I've never thought about looking in the charity shops for gardening equipment, what a good idea!!

Don't let "Bubblewrap" know your putting beer in it, or you'll have some one laid in the garden with a STRAW

[quark1]

No I don't run a pub - but you'd be surprised how even the little dregs in a can or bottle mount up. I keep an old coffee jar under the sink to collect before I rinse and recycle the glass or cans. Agree 15 pots will be difficult to fill so I thought perhaps I could dilute it say 50/50 with water - not quite like adulterating good beer now is it?

I really don't think BW would be very impressed with the drinking quality of my slops......but who knows.......perhaps that if for him to answer alone!?

[Jeanied]

On my gardening DVD (forget what it is called) the presenter went round to his local pub to collect the slops in a large plastic container - part of his 'rounds' - including the greengrocer to collect veg scraps for compost.

[quark1]

Great idea Jeanied - they can only say 'no - on your way quick smart'. Defo give that a try. Thanks.

[Eco-Chic]

I got a case of lager from Freecyle which was 3 years past it's sell by with a view to slug pubbing if it didn't taste ok.

Slugs didn't get any

[Bren In Pots]

If you're short on beer slops you could use yeast, I've heard that big supermarkets with in store bakeries will give you a bit if you ask there's none near me though and its only 10 Pence an ounce my local my corn merchant.