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 ...

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 ...

Becca Lewis is home maintenance writer who aims to foster confidence in and inspire DIY enthusiasts at all skill levels. Becca attended Southern Connecticut State University, where she studied ...

With the arrival of spring comes cheerful yellow daffodils, billowing branches of blossom and lambs in the fields – along with one rather less welcome seasonal arrival: slugs. While this time of year ...

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 ...

Slugs can't resist the yeast in the beer, and they'll climb their way into the beer and drown, unable to haul themselves out. Use these traps around the edges of beds with vulnerable plants, or where ...

Amanda Blum is a freelancer who writes about smart home technology, gardening, and food preservation. Previously, Amanda has worked as a technology strategist specializing in problem solving and ...

Enjoying the outdoors is difficult when there are flying pests circling your head. Surprisingly, you can keep them away by using beer. Here's how.

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 ...

close up of a slug in vegetable garden - La Huertina De Toni/Shutterstock I'm a master gardener who specializes in organic growing and permaculture, so I've spent the past few decades testing all ...