Q&A for How to Use Beer to Get Rid of Snails in Your Garden

The snails will be attracted to the scent of the beer and drown in the liquid.

There are several methods. You can use a garlic spray that is typically homemade or you can use the beer trap method. Spraying them with cold coffee can also kill them.

They are bad for the garden, although they won't do much at the ground level, but they will quickly climb to leaves higher up and eat the buds off flowers.

Several things will kill slugs; putting beer in a shallow cup will drown them. Using coffee grounds spread around the stems of the plants can also stop slugs from climbing.

Once they climb into the beer trap, they are usually unable to escape. They drown in the beer.

Bury the plastic bottle until the bottom of the door is lined up with the surrounding ground.

There is no distance from your plants from which you must place your beer traps. As long as you have one trap per square meter, your snail problem will soon be a thing of the past!

It wouldn't hurt to set up a few traps outside the perimeter of the garden, but the traps will probably be most effective when placed inside the garden. And with a garden of that size, you'll need more than one trap to get rid of snails.

Yes. Lager is a kind of beer. You can make a trap with any kind of beer to get rid of garden snails and slugs.

If your plants are in containers, you might want to surround the edge with copper.