Natural Enemies Snails and slugs have many natural enemies, including ground beetles, pathogens, snakes, toads, turtles, nematodes, and birds, but...
Keep Reading »
This is the fourth in a series about controlling slugs and snails in the home garden. Slugs and snails are active in the garden down to about 32 F....
Keep Reading »
If you can't persuade the slugs to go next door by declining to feed and house them, perhaps it is time to erect a wall around your garden. Barriers...
Keep Reading »
Cultural Control Step one in controlling slugs is to reduce favorable habitat. To a large extent, this is just ordinary garden hygiene cranked up a...
Keep Reading »
Dealing with slugs and snails may not be in your past but, as a gardener, it's almost certainly in your future. Here is what we are up against and...
Keep Reading »
The 'so-called' "Great Recession" can't remain balanced where it is. It will either fall off the fence on the side of prosperity or it will...
Keep Reading »
Who doesn't like fresh tomatoes, straight from the garden, given a light rinse and then straight to the plate (or palate!)? Well, it's finally time to...
Keep Reading »
Tomatoes are a member of the nightshade family and were once thought to be poisonous. Their genus name means, literally, “wolf peach” ......
Keep Reading »