The sweet scent will lure slugs in, distracting them from their usual meal: your plants. If a predator doesn’t get to them first, collect the fruit scraps the next morning and kill any live ...
Slugs and snails can cause damage to seedlings and plants throughout the year, leaving irregularly shaped holes and chew marks in their foliage. In the cooler months, gardeners might even spot the ...
A slug infestation is the last thing you want to find in your home or garden at any time of year, especially in the winter when there’s less time to check for damaged plants in daylight.
I immediately thought of slugs and snails. Sure enough, when she looked, there were lots of them! Today I’m going to share some of the suggestions I made to my daughter about how to get rid of ...
Jon suggests planting things that snails and slugs don’t eat or that you don’t mind getting eaten. He recommends not using molluscicides to kill them, as these might enter the food chain and build up ...
For many gardeners, getting rid of slugs has long been a back-breaking task, involving picking them out of flower beds at night using rubber gloves and a torch. They are also a major agricultural ...
Weeds, bugs, rabbits, birds — all of them try to get a bite out of our flowers and vegetables. Some of the worst are mollusks. Snails and slugs are notorious plant attackers. Tomato plants don ...
Slugs are the bane of many gardeners' lives as these slimy invaders can quickly reduce your hard work to a few sad, nibbled leaves. Snails are most active in the cooler, damp evenings and early ...
Gardening guru Monty Don has revealed a clever trick Brits can use to get rid of slugs and snails. Slugs are great for keeping your garden healthy, Monty said, as they help keep a by eating ...