[skywalker]

Put a couple of dishes of beert out next to the rhubarb and purple sprouting as they were both taking a bit of a hammering from the slimey ones. Next morning two dishes full of drowned slimey ones and no more chewed leaves. Luckily gort a few cans of well out of date beer from a couple of Christmas's ago (stuff I don't drink! - thats few and far between actually   ) as wasting good alcohol would be sacrilige!
Got the tip off here - Nice one!!!!!!!!!

[muntjac]

dont fed them to ya chucks please ... drunken chicken walking is not to be laffed at ........... actually it is ,its blooming liariossssssssssssssssss  

[MrsMak]

My Dad used to do this to get rid of the slugs.  He always used to say you could hear them singing!

[skywalker]

Does anyone knowe of a good alternative for the beer cos once the out of date stuff has gone I'm not sure I wont end up drinking it before it gets into the dishes!
Haven't got any chucks yet - possibly later this year  :idea: Actually i could do with a couple of drinking buddies      

[Aidy]

you could always use lager mate, thats not worth drinking  

[muntjac]

thought ya have loads of drinking buddies seeing as ur near accrington stanley football team  

[Trillium]

Skywalker, a bit of yeast and sugar in water should do the trick. Replace every few days as the yeast will have 'wilted' by then.  

[Trillium]

Sorry, should have qualified that as baking yeast, the kind your grocery stores stock.

[skywalker]

Accrington Stanley? Who are they?

[Ian_P]

You can try this if you have the courage.

Mount a needle or large pin securely in the end of a cane.

On a nice moist evening, go out armed with the cane and a torch and start poking around under your plants. Before long you will find dozens.

Stick them with the pin, then if you have nothing to feed them to drop them into an old container with a layer of salt in the bottom.

You catch many many more than with beer, but you've got to bring out the hunter in you.

 :twisted:

[flowerlady]

dont fed them to ya chucks please ... drunken chicken walking is not to be laffed at ........... actually it is ,its blooming liariossssssssssssssssss  

So ... do you do this often  :shock:  

[Grinin'Reaper]

What about buying some cheap and nasty 'own brand' beer from Asda or such like ? Tho it may be that ''Pants" that it doesnt work !?
Just a thot !

[muntjac]

i made the mistake of feeding used whisky bran to my chucks ,very intoxicating stuff lolo

[WG.]

You can try this if you have the courage.

Mount a needle or large pin securely in the end of a cane.

On a nice moist evening, go out armed with the cane and a torch and start poking around under your plants. Before long you will find dozens.

Stick them with the pin, then if you have nothing to feed them to drop them into an old container with a layer of salt in the bottom.
 

Sounds good to me Ian.  I'll keep the beer for myself then (loved the beery pun though ... "if you have the courage")