On a gardening page with people telling me stale beer, egg shells and coffee grounds work keeping slugs and snails away from plants. They have no clue who they're talking to apparently.
7 years ago my neighbor's daughter across the street worked for Star Bucks and would bring me bags of used coffee grounds. Didn't do shit for my slug and snail problem. I would invision groups of slugs and snails muching away with a mug of coffee.
I also buried jars around my garden half filled with beer. Kept them half full for over 2 weeks. Caught all of 8 snails. I pick off that many at least twice a week early morning in my large greenhouse.
We compost all tablescraps except meat and diary and I have tried several ways to use egg shells to keep the slimey bastards away with absolutely no luck.
Copper works and bait works, that's it. Look who finally got nipped up a bit
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Starry Eyed fem. Today she got a copper wire put around her. She'll be fine but she won't be a late night snack for any slugs or snails again.
This is the easiest way to protect individual plants
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10" of 14 gage wire. Just time consuming stripping off the insulation but well worth the effort