Slugs. They eat your lettuces, chew your cabbages, defoliate your dahlias and assassinate your asters. Even the name "slug" is unpleasant. It comes from the Middle English "slugge", from a Norwegian ...

close up of a slug in vegetable garden - La Huertina De Toni/Shutterstock I'm a master gardener who specializes in organic growing and permaculture, so I've spent the past few decades testing all ...

They’re slithery, slimy and they love to make a smorgasbord of your crops. The drab and inconspicuous slug continues to increase its rank of pests you should scout for and monitor in your corn and ...

Our rainy spring weather has been great for our gardens — but may also have encouraged some unwelcome garden visitors, including snails and slugs. Snails and slugs are similar in structure and biology ...

Q: I saw a post online about making penny balls to deter slugs. You glue a bunch of pennies on a bowling ball and set it out in the garden, and the copper keeps the slugs away. The picture online ...

If you've got beds that are full of slugs, chances are, they're also full of leafy, cramped plants, or there's a lot of dead leaf and debris build up at the bases of the plants. Where this happens, it ...

Open up slug-prone beds so they dry faster If you've got beds that are full of slugs, chances are, they're also full of leafy, cramped plants, or there's a lot of dead leaf and debris build up at the ...