Would velcro stop slugs?

[janeyo]

As I have chickens this year, I am planning to provide them with as much of the snail/slug delicacy that they enjoy. However, I haven't quite worked out how to catch them first, as I can't use slug pellets. I did wonder about the beer trap, but have visions of drunk chickens wandering around the garden, and visits from RSPCA.

Put down a seet of black plastic, leave it overight, turn it over and bobs your uncle, chicken feast!
Although mine don't like snails and run screaming from those massive slugs.

[cathd66]

Don't laugh, but a strip of cheap anti-perspirant along the lip of a raised bed or the side of a pot stops slugs crawling over it. (ever got deodorant on your fingers then accidentally put it in your mouth? Then you'll know why it works)

[binley100]

Sounds easier than velcro .

[Rossa]

Don't laugh, but a strip of cheap anti-perspirant along the lip of a raised bed or the side of a pot stops slugs crawling over it. (ever got deodorant on your fingers then accidentally put it in your mouth? Then you'll know why it works)

Sorry if I seem a bit dense but do you mean using a roll on deodorant and rolling it along the edge? When you say "strip" you don't mean those solid block deodorants like they sell in Lush do you?

Will it wash off in the rain and need to be reapplied? Seems so simple yet great if it'll work. Hey the best ideas are usually the simplest. You certainly think out of the box

Do you think it will stop the smell of the alpaca poo I've got as well....only kidding, it doesn't smell at all, well slightly sweetish til the neighbours complain when it warms up a bit.

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[sarraceniac]

Beer traps. Used them for years and they work. No problem with drunken animals but I do sometimes have to get out of bed to order Lady S. out of the borders and into the house again.