Never throw away bottle caps - they help against pests

Created: 06/29/2022, 15:15

By: Julian Kaiser

Slugs are a recurring nuisance for many garden owners.

A simple trick promises success against the unwelcome guests.

NRW – Many garden owners get chills at the thought of a certain plague: slugs.

Once the slippery animals have attacked strawberry plants, lettuce or types of cabbage, the former splendor of color in the home garden is quickly only a shadow of its former self. But even if the uninvited guests are difficult to drive away, an unusual method helps - and it works perfectly without chemicals.

Garden: Slugs are a nuisance and hated by gardeners

Although, according to

, there are “almost no obstacles that slugs cannot overcome to get to the local vegetables”, concerned garden owners do not necessarily have to swing the chemical club, but can fall back on proven household remedies, among other things.

This not only protects the animals themselves, but also the environment.

There is a whole repertoire of more or less sensible anti-slug measures for the fight against uninvited guests.

The beer, poison, live or slug pellets traps and collection containers recommended by

magazine can help rid the garden of snails.

But each method has its advantages and disadvantages.

Garden: bottle caps as a miracle weapon against slug infestation

According to the

, garden owners should collect and dispose of the snails, set up beer traps, use special roundworms against them and, above all, avoid the slug pellets.

Some slugs, such as the useful slugs, are partly under species protection and must not be fought.

According to the

, slugs have numerous opponents who have significant advantages over their food in terms of speed and for which it is best to create retreats.

In the event that hedgehogs, lizards, toads or birds are not exactly numerous predators of slugs in the vicinity, garden owners only need two things that at first glance do not really go together: bottle caps and double-sided adhesive tape.

After all, they are often part of the scenery of an illustrious evening on which soft drinks or beers were consumed and often end up in the garbage can afterwards.

Bottle caps can be disposed of quickly, but with the right know-how they can turn out to be slug nemesis, as RUHR24 reveals.

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A protective fence made of bottle caps can keep slugs out.

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Garden: bottle cap protection wall keeps slugs out of sharp edges

And the anti-slug fence is so easy to build:

recommends attaching “the tape to the respective edges of the bed or pot”.

This creates a kind of fence made of bottle caps, whose jagged shapes form an insurmountable obstacle.

It is important that the crown caps are glued with the smooth side down.

Apparently, the method has already proven its worth.

Only recently a user on the advice website

reported on his successes with this method.

The predominantly positive comments of other slug haters under the post speak for the effectiveness of the bottle cap protection wall.