{"id":4424,"date":"2016-12-28T18:02:53","date_gmt":"2016-12-28T23:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homesteaderdepot.com\/?p=4424"},"modified":"2016-12-28T18:02:53","modified_gmt":"2016-12-28T23:02:53","slug":"beer-for-the-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/survivalhomesteader.net\/2016\/12\/28\/beer-for-the-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Beer for the Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beer isn\u2019t just great for the gardener after a hard day\u2019s work, it\u2019s also great for the health of your garden.\u00a0 One way to put this beverage to work for you is to use it to attract\u00a0and to kill slugs that can damage your crops and even spread disease.\u00a0 Here\u2019s how to use household items and little extra beer to keep your garden healthy and productive.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You will need a small tin, like a tuna can or a cat food container, a large plastic bottle, and some beer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol>\n<li>Empty and clean the tin. You don\u2019t want to try to get rid of slugs only to bring in the neighborhood stray cats.<\/li>\n<li>Cut the top off of a plastic bottle that has a diameter larger than the tin. This will be used to cover the tin to keep water out, so it needs to be able to fit over the tin completely.<\/li>\n<li>Cut 4 \u201cmouse holes\u201d in the bottle top, one on each side. This is to allow the slugs to get in while it is covering the tin.<\/li>\n<li>Place the tin in the ground near crops that have been affected by slugs or where you have seen their trails. You want the top the tin close to the ground so that the slugs don\u2019t have to work too hard to get to their beer.\u00a0 But, if you notice that you are catching other critters, especially ground beetles that eat slugs, then you are going to want to raise the tin up a little to reduce this risk.<\/li>\n<li>Fill the tin with beer, almost to the top.<\/li>\n<li>Place the bottle over the tin to keep rain from diluting your beer to the point that it does not attract slugs.<\/li>\n<li>Change the beer in the trap and the location of the trap every few days to keep the slugs guessing.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Don\u2019t waste all the beer on the slugs, gardening can be hard work, save some for yourself.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you liked this, you might also enjoy\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/8ef9flvm5e266ovn2ep3m6oq5q.hop.clickbank.net\/?tid=NEWADS\">Holistic Medicine Basics<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/8ef9flvm5e266ovn2ep3m6oq5q.hop.clickbank.net\/?tid=NEWADS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2026<\/a><\/h2>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/e8b96k8k-h4z5h3w15ex3osldj.hop.clickbank.net\/?tid=NEWADS\">Ever Considered Taking Yoga? Read this<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/e8b96k8k-h4z5h3w15ex3osldj.hop.clickbank.net\/?tid=NEWADS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2026<\/a><\/h2>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/ada15qviw9433p1qt9umz2sf8f.hop.clickbank.net\/?tid=NEWADS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Ultimate Woodworking Course..<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beer isn\u2019t just great for the gardener after a hard day\u2019s work, it\u2019s also great for the health of your garden.\u00a0 One way to put this beverage to work for you is to use it to attract\u00a0and to kill slugs that can damage your crops and even spread disease.\u00a0 Here\u2019s how to use household items<\/p>\n<div class=\"blog-grid-button\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/survivalhomesteader.net\/2016\/12\/28\/beer-for-the-garden\/\">Read More <i class=\"fa fa-arrow-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[49,163,249,425,506],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/survivalhomesteader.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4424"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/survivalhomesteader.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/survivalhomesteader.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/survivalhomesteader.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/survivalhomesteader.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/survivalhomesteader.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/survivalhomesteader.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/survivalhomesteader.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/survivalhomesteader.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/survivalhomesteader.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}