Slugs are wreaking havoc across British gardens as the wet weather continues into summer 2024. Gardening legend Alan Tichmarsh has compared them to bed bugs, admitting he chucks them over his fence to ...

This is your reminder not to be an April Fool and plant warm-season vegetables such as tomatoes, peppers, basil or squash. In your container gardens do not yet plant coleus, begonias or impatiens. If ...

Whether you see the gross little mollusks or not, baby slugs are hatching all over your garden. And now's the time to control them. Here are some ways to fight the good fight. • Check under pots, ...

M.B.: Curses to those slugs and curtains for those hosta leaves. Tough perennials such as hosta do not need mulch to survive our mild winters. In fact, bare winter soil will allow predators to feed on ...

I never would have imagined how many people would reply when I asked for ideas on controlling slugs. It was, by far, the biggest response I've gotten in 15 years of writing about gardening. So much, ...

Q: Decades ago, when I was living on Orcas Island, I had a large home garden, over an acre, and kind of welcomed the big fat banana slugs. Early morning patrols with a couple of pieces of sharpened ...

Garden crops have a lot of enemies, but few are as non-selective and destructive as slugs. Unlike plant diseases and many insect pests, slugs are not host-specific and have a very diverse diet from ...