Snails and Slugs

How to Protect Your Garden from Slugs and Snails

A close up horizontal image of two snails climbing on squash plants.

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.