As a vegetable gardener i totally detest slugs – They are a real pain. I have experienced the joy and excitement at seeing a whole row of cabbage or turnip seeds shoot through the surface, and then suffer the pain of coming back the next day and seeing them munched to death by slugs. Here is my favourite slug control method.

Beer traps are great. Just get an old, large milk bottle, cut it in half and dig it into the soil so that the top is just over the surface. Fill it with some (cheap) lager and watch the slugs gravitate to the beer. I must commend the little pests – They do really love their beer and can’t get enough. They look at the beer and fancy a swim in it, and when it’s too late for them, then they realise they can’t swim. Oh what a shame! Go back a week later and you should have a good batch of slugs in there. What a brilliant organic, chemical free pest control method.

Just make sure you cover the beer trap with something like a roofing tile, the kind of ones that sit on the apex of the roof. This keeps the rain out from diluting the beer, and also creates a nice dark place which tempts the slugs in even more.