Q. Help. I planted my winter garden and now the snails are eating my newly planted cabbage and pak choi plants. I have tried baits and beer traps but that does not seem to be stopping them from ...

It's easy to spot snails and slugs when they're large, but finding one snail is a sign that you need to start looking around and find the smaller snails or slugs that are sure to be nearby. Snails and ...

Snails and slugs thrive when the weather is rainy and beds are regularly irrigated. (Patrick Pleul/AP) Since spring, frequent rains have been keeping things on the soggy side and causing a myriad of ...

Our rainy spring weather has been great for our gardens — but may also have encouraged some unwelcome garden visitors, including snails and slugs. Snails and slugs are similar in structure and biology ...

MOST GARDENERS DETEST slugs and snails. It’s hard to like slimy creatures that damage edible plants and prized ornamentals. There’s a reason these mollusks are so destructive. Slugs and snails ...

You can rid your garden of snails -- if not once and for all, then at least for the better part of a year -- without resorting to baits, toxins or otherwise. But you have to have the right attitude.

Experts have explained a simple, cheap and natural way to stop slugs in their tracks using a kitchen ingredient that costs ...

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For a couple of years, I've been battling little brown round snails that are eating holes in plant leaves and leaving rasp scrapings on stems. Now there is a new conical-shaped snail in my potted ...

Many gardeners consider snails and slugs to be the most disgusting pests in the garden. I could live with their looks if they just didn’t cause so much damage. Snails and slugs belong to the mollusk ...

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 ...

CORVALLIS – New research from Oregon State University Extension Service found slugs and snails are strongly attracted to bread dough, a discovery that could lead to better ways of controlling these ...