Slugs can be a big problem for gardeners. From munching lettuce heads to destroying young seedlings, slugs can make a meal of a wide range of ornamental plants and vegetables during springtime. "Slugs ...
In good news for organic, eco-friendly gardening, the sale and use of slug pellets is now officially banned in the UK. The new legislation came into force on 1st April 2022. Metaldehyde pellets have ...
A garden can look flawless one evening and completely ravaged by morning. Leaves that looked lush and healthy suddenly wear jagged holes, and tender seedlings vanish like they never existed. That kind ...
Slugs ruining your garden? Try these weird, but genius ways to banish them and save your crops!
Across UK gardens, toilet paper roll collars are popping up around tender seedlings as a viral answer to slug damage. But do ...
Snails and slugs are common pests in gardens. They belong to the mollusk family along with oysters, and they crawl along over a thin layer of slime that they produce to ease their way. Snails carry a ...
British gardeners and farmers may remember 2024 with a shudder – it was widely referred to as “the year of the slug”. Vast numbers of slimy slitherers chomped their way through raspberries, laid waste ...