Slugs and their slimy trails can be a real nuisance in the garden. They can cause significant damage to your vegetable plants and leave your garden beds unsightly. Some suggestions to deter garden ...

Q. Help. I planted my winter garden and now the snails are eating my newly planted cabbage and pak choi plants. I have tried baits and beer traps but that does not seem to be stopping them from ...

If you live in an area with slugs, you know they can be a major garden nuisance. Nothing can ruin your elaborate gardening plans like seeing the remains of your tender seedlings eaten through down to ...

A certain type of food waste could serve as one solution to your garden's slug problem. Tom Brown, head gardener at West Dean Gardens, shared a series of gardening tips in an article, providing advice ...

We are really excited about a new development in the control of these disgusting and destructive pests. Not all gardeners have slugs, but most do, including both of us. The old standard slug bait was ...

Slugs like a damp, mild climate. Slugs (and snails) like living in Oregon. Our mild, wet climate seems like paradise to them. There are a dozen important slug species in Oregon gardens (and a couple ...

One way to fight slugs is to put out saucers of beer each night and toss the drowned slugs in the morning. But what if you're drowning dozens of happy drunks a day? Will it ever end? After one of the ...

In my garden, I’m the hero. I raised those plant babies—I fed and watered them, encouraged them with daily affirmations, and then mark their progress each day in the garden with little “thank you’s” ...

Tom Clamp, head of technical at Doff Portland – a leading manufacturer of premium garden care products – explains why this season could see another surge in hungry slugs and how to stop them before ...

Due to an editing error, the answer to the following question was deleted in the Oct. 24 issue. Q: I am writing to you again about a problem with slugs in my vegetable garden. Last time, you suggested ...