I don't reall have the room to companion plant without overplanting or cutting back on production. The beer traps only cause issues if your dog likes to drink it. My lab will probably be on those if I use them drinking the beer and eating the dead slugs (he was too young last year). However if you don't like harming animals beer traps are very inhumane as these things go. The slugs actually drink so much they explode....
I use the beer/soap method mostly, as well as some diactimous earth (spelling may be off, lol) but reapplying it can be costly if it rains every couple days for some time.
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