Trap slugs with flowerpots

Here is a safe, simple way to trap slugs in the garden. Take two clay flowerpots of different sizes—one 4-inch- and one 6-inch-diameter pot, for example—and soak them in a tub of water (new pots should be soaked for about 48 hours). Then place them upside down, with the smaller one inside the larger one, in a shady location near plants that show evidence of slug damage. Keep the pots moist. After three to four days, lift the top pot and you will find slugs sleeping in the little “house” you have provided for them. Scrape the slugs into a disposable container with a tight-fitting lid and toss them in the trash.

Since slugs eat at night and hide in the daytime, check and empty pots in the middle of the day. Make your daytime rounds a couple of times a week, and before long, your slug problem will be solved.