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If you have any gardening experience, you’ve likely discovered that slugs can be extremely pesky and destructive pests. They feed on many kinds of leaves, fruits, vegetables, and other plant matter. After all the hard work you've put into cultivating your plants, you definitely don’t want to let the slugs take away from your effort and care. Luckily, vinegar is a cheap and accessible substance that can control slugs, so read on to find out how you can use it![1]

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Try other natural slug remedies.

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  1. Vinegar isn't the only way to keep your garden slug-free. Try one of these other all-natural methods:[6]
    • Keep your garden bright and dry by pruning low shrubs, thinning plants, and improving drainage.
    • Grow plants that slugs don't like, including ferns, creeping phlox, Grey's sedge, evening primrose, and clematis.
    • Bury a container in the ground so the top is level with the soil, and fill it with beer until about 1 inch (2.5 cm) from the top. Slugs will be attracted by the beer and fall into the trap and drown.

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This article was reviewed by Elmer Bensinger and by wikiHow staff writer, Emily Liu. Elmer Bensinger is a Pest Control Specialist with Eden Advanced Pest Technologies in Spokane, Washington. With over 20 years of experience, Elmer specializes in integrated pest management and products such as insecticides and rodenticides. He studied business at South Puget Sound Community College. This article has been viewed 66,030 times.
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