I found out what's eating my hop plants.

[StanJohnson]

I knew something was eating my hop plants but never knew until I went out tonight with a flash light. Here's what I found. Snails. There were a bunch of them. I killed what I could find. I'll be getting some kind of pest control tomorrow. Any suggestions?

 

[JRems]

Snails have to crawl up from the bottom so try some diatomaceous earth around the plant.

 

[kellanv]

A product called Sluggo generally works pretty well. We have thousands of snails in my yard so I have to protect pretty much everything.

 

[kruegerBrew]

Copper shielding has worked well for me... If you can get some. I built a few MRI rooms and had some of the sheet copper left over... Not sure where to get it otherwise but they make copper rings for this purpose too

 

[badbrew]

looks like he ^^^ has a few friends.

 

[feenaughty]

Beer in a small dish will draw them in.Coors light not home brew:/

 

[StanJohnson]

I bought some slug and snail pellets. All I have in the fridge is home brew or craft beer. Sure don't want to waste it on snails.

 

[Bithead]

broken up egg shells are supposed to work also. Spread around plant at the base.

 

[kruegerBrew]

Yeah badbrew I squished all those buggers with my fingers and haven't seen many more. Aphids of some sort right?

 

[badbrew]

Yeah badbrew I squished all those buggers with my fingers and haven't seen many more. Aphids of some sort right?

looks like it.

 

[punkrockdave]

Beer in a small dish will draw them in.Coors light not home brew:/

Works like a charm