PROTECTING your garden against pests doesn’t have to involve chemicals. Not only can you use beautiful plants to give your ...

Slugs are nocturnal and feed mostly at night, making them hard to spot during the day. To monitor populations, place a ...

They’re slithery, slimy and they love to make a smorgasbord of your crops. The drab and inconspicuous slug continues to increase its rank of pests you should scout for and monitor in your corn and ...

Alias: Slug. It is hard to define what a slug is, because there are so many species in the world. Most people have come to call anything in the gastropod family that doesn’t have a shell a slug. I ...

They may not turn into Prince Charming, but a toad can wipe out 10,000 pests in a season. Here’s why your yard needs a toad ...

Slugs and snails can be a mixed blessing in your garden. Slugs are almost exclusively a nuisance, while snails can have some benefits. Generally speaking, however, the drawbacks of each outweigh the ...

Today is the first day of June and is considered to be the first day of summer for some. Spring gardening is always the most enjoyable time of the year to garden. Everything is fresh, new and easy to ...

Laura Jesse, of Iowa State University Extension's Plant & Insect Diagnostic Clinic, wrote the following about garden slugs: There seem to be plenty of slugs in my garden, but I hope not in yours.