Slugs can make quick work of your garden plants unless you're using proven strategies to combat them. Here are ways to get ...

SLUGS! Ever discover something in the night had eaten holes on your hosta leaves or even in your vegetable or strawberry garden. One probable source of this damage is slugs. Hungry slugs can be ...

When darkness falls, your garden becomes a feast for hungry pests. One everyday food hero promises to protect your blooms ...

The average garden in the UK contains more than 20,000 slugs, so it's not surprising that the pests sometimes munch on our ...

This may increase the amount of iron in ground water, which can be toxic to earthworms in high doses. If you use either kind of pellets, concentrate your efforts on vulnerable plants; don’t attempt to ...

Gardening expert Karen Gimson has shared her top tip for keeping slugs away from your plants and flowers - and you probably ...

Protecting seedlings from pests can feel like a constant battle; sometimes sensible plant choice is more worthwhile than ...

It has led charity Garden Organic to dub 2024 the 'year of the slug' and an 'annus horribilis'. Squashes such as courgettes fared worst with 62 per cent of growers saying their yield was either a ...

If it gets too dry, snails can go into a dormancy called aestivation, or if it gets too cold, they might hibernate. There are snails and slugs everywhere! If you have a garden, you’ll find them hiding ...

but not kill slugs and snails. The design is incredibly simple – two bare wires are strung around the raised garden about one centimeter apart. The wires are connected to a nine-volt battery.