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: 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 ...

Slugs represent a gardener's worst nightmare, ruthlessly attacking cherished flowers or crops within mere hours, however, there exists a straightforward method to deter them from your garden. These ...

Gardening expert Claire Ratinon has revealed how to keep slugs at bay, and it's not by using eggshells or coffee grounds as people often believe, but by creating a different homemade device A ...

Rabbits! They are ravenous in the spring when greens like spinach and lettuce are just coming up. For years I kept them at bay with a simple 2-foot high chicken wire fence held in place with thin ...

Gardeners are all too familiar with the battle against slugs, which can devastate plants and crops within hours. However, as we approach the end of summer, the peak season for these pesky molluscs due ...

Question: Something is eating the leaves of many of my flowers, including my zinnias, hostas, dahlias and petunias. I don’t see any Japanese beetles or other bugs on them, but there are holes in the ...

If you love drinking beer in your garden after a long day, you might be interested in knowing that slugs and snails do, too. Chowhound previously spoke to Sara Rubens, certified garden coach and ...

11:59, Sat, Aug 2, 2025 Updated: 12:13, Sat, Aug 2, 2025 A gardening expert has shut down the idea that using eggshells and coffee will do much to protect your plants from slugs. Instead, they ...

There are many ways to keep slugs out of your yard and away from your plants, ranging from traps and distractions to hands-on removal methods.

A gardening expert has dismissed the notion that eggshells and coffee grounds offer much protection for your plants against slugs. Instead, she proposed an entirely different homemade solution that ...