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I Will Prevail Against the Slugs!

I Will Prevail Against the Slugs!

Lisa Eirene

About Lisa Eirene Lisa lost 110 pounds through calorie counting and exercise. She swims, bikes, runs, hikes and is enjoying life in Portland, Oregon. Her weight loss story has been featured in First Magazine, Yahoo Health, Woman's Day and Glamour.com.

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12 Comments

  1. Nicole

    Ugh… I have TONS of slugs where I’m planting my garden too. They’re SO disgusting!

  2. Lisa

    I always wondered who drank PBR.

    1. Lisa Eirene

      NOT ME!! The PBR is for the slugs only. ๐Ÿ™‚

  3. jane Cartelli

    I am so glad you found the beer remedy. As i was reading I wanted to call out GET BEER but then I reached the part where you found out it works. I do not like slugs in my veggies either (but then who does?).

    Jane~
    Keepingthepoundsoff,com

    1. Lisa Eirene

      I hope that my plants grow back!!! I want lettuce!

  4. Lisa

    The lettuce will grow back, and I hope no rabbits find out about it! The rabbits came and chowed on mine one summer. I was so angry, but there was nothing I could do.
    Are you growing tomatoes? Be sure to pinch off the suckers on the plants – the branches that grow in the crotch of another branch. They will weigh down the plant and kill the main branch. Also, tomatoes get nasty, huge, green tomato worms. Congrats on your garden! I’ve got 21 green tomatoes and 1 not quite ripe tomato on my 3 tomato plants. That’s the most tomatoes ever for me!

    1. Lisa Eirene

      We do have wild rabbits but I haven’t seen them (yet) in my garden. Just the dang slugs!

  5. Lisa

    Hello from a fellow Portland gardener! Slugs are terrible! You may want to try putting a ring of crushed egg shells around your plants as slugs don’t like to crawl (or maybe it’s slither, ick!) over them. Give it a try!

    1. Lisa Eirene

      I’ve heard about eggshells too. If the Sluggo stops working I’m trying the eggshells next!

  6. Kristin

    I just saw this link! props to you guys for making slug traps! I just purchased “organic, non harmful to life…etc etc 22$ for a few pellets slug bait” hahhaa since my neighbor harbors stray animals she was super worried…sigh. I should have just made some traps. But I just had to leave this comment because my grandma always put out shallow pans of beer for her slug problems too…none of us really believed that it worked..so I was happy to see in your blog that she was absolutely right ๐Ÿ™‚

    1. Lisa Eirene

      I was skeptical too! But they really did work! I’d find dead slugs in my traps every morning. Not so much this summer now that the temperatures are hotter.

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