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The Best Natural Methods to Protect Your Garden from Slugs and Snails

Get rid of snails with beer, salt, and other nontoxic household items. | GardenersPath.com

Garden slugs and snails are known as gastropods, and an infestation can decimate tender seedlings and mature plants in short order. Join us here for a look at the most effective natural methods to banish the slimy bandits for good!

How to Keep Slugs Off Cabbage and Other Cole Crops

A slug eating a cabbage leaf. Close up photo.

Although slugs can be highly serious pests of cabbage and other cruciferous veggies, there are a variety of techniques that you can use to control these land mollusks. Read on to learn a number of ways to banish slugs from your garden. You have options ranging from barriers to traps to predatory slugs and bait.