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[…] of diatomaceous earth can prevent seedlings from being munched. Additional methods include a beer trap, the cornmeal method, or an application of Sluggo […]

By: Joan Cox

Joan Cox — Sat, 08 Aug 2015 20:49:07 +0000

Thanks for the tip1 I was looking for something harmless, inexpensive and easy and this fits the bill!

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 15 Jul 2015 01:15:52 +0000

I was aware of this process before for snails, and found hand removal for them faster (very early in the morning with a miners hat style light on, daily, while getting the morning newspaper). Now just started 4 containers in another area for pill bugs. Beer most certainly attracts the pill bugs, but they become rail bugs and only venture into the pool with some finger persuasion. Then the rest scatter. I would like to somehow upgrade just a little. Does anyone know, is yeast the tease? I am going to try some yeast in water and test but would appreciate any thoughts. Thanks.

By: Debbra

Debbra — Fri, 10 Jul 2015 16:12:32 +0000

Trying this today. 🙂 Hubby had some sacrificial beer for me. Have a nice garden this year. First time I’ve seen the pill bugs eating my plants.

By: Zepguwl

Zepguwl — Tue, 23 Jun 2015 13:20:00 +0000

In reply to Wendy. did it work with the pill bugs? they are eating everything in my garden

By: Sean guthrie

Sean guthrie — Mon, 01 Jun 2015 05:37:25 +0000

I’m going to try the beer trick as well. I live in missouri and started my plants relatively early so I covered the roots with straw. It has not stopped raining for the past month(holy crap!) and noticed this weekend that there were hundreds of these things in my garden. I removed all of the straw and other debris so hopefully they will follow it to where I piled it up. Lol. They were devastating my radishes. Also my green beans look terrible, the leaves are curled up at the edges. They seem to be growing but wondered if the pill bugs had something to do with this or maybe the excess of rain lately?
Also, some help on another somewhat related subject would be appreciated, as previously stated, I put straw on top of the soil over the roots of my tomatoes and peppers to keep them warm since I planted early. (Gambled last year and got away with it too. One of these days I wont. Lol) anyway, I must’ve got some really fresh straw because it sprouted wheat all over my garden. I wanted to get walls of water instead but couldn’t justify the cost. $20 for 3 of them. I would need approx 70 of them. Gonna get worse as I have plans to expand my beds. So…. My question, does anybody have ideas on how to make walls of water at home?
Thank you

By: nate

nate — Sat, 23 May 2015 05:28:14 +0000

Gonna try it, just realized tonight I have probably thousands in my garden. I have a big garden, not sure where or if they are centralized. Got strawberries and other things too….plenty of weeds and dead material.

By: Missy

Missy — Tue, 29 Oct 2013 17:43:31 +0000

I tried the beer trick in my flower bed. The pill bugs were eating up the leaves of my flowers and we were astounded at the success of it. We caught hundreds of them, seriously. Now, my vegetable garden is getting eaten up by them and I just planted the raised garden 6 days ago. We have had tremendous amounts of rain so the ground is saturated. Should I remove the mulch for a while?

By: Carol

Carol — Thu, 23 May 2013 01:49:41 +0000

This also works for slugs…in fact the non alcoholic beer can be used.

By: Carrie

Carrie — Mon, 20 May 2013 00:24:51 +0000

It works but the ducks work better in the garden for slugs it is worth borrowing a duck or two for a few days to rid the garden of pests.