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 ...

Slug season has arrived to plague gardeners intent on enjoying their vegetables and flowers themselves. To help combat the slimy plant slurpers, artist Terry Mullins, of Cornelius, has cooked up a ...

A slug feasting on a green lettuce leaf in a garden. - MakroBetz/Shutterstock Imagine this: You walk into your garden to harvest some lettuce leaves and suddenly realize that they're covered with ...

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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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I'm a master gardener who specializes in organic growing and permaculture, so I've spent the past few decades testing all kinds of ...

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Use these traps around the edges of beds with vulnerable plants, or where you suspect heavy slug activity. And do note that you'll need to empty out the hideous dissolving slug and beer concoction ...

I'm a master gardener who specializes in organic growing and permaculture, so I've spent the past few decades testing all kinds of natural ways to keep slugs off my plants. These persistent garden ...