A single night of spring rain can transform a quiet garden into a slow-moving feast. Leaves that looked flawless yesterday ...

Are you sick of slugs and snails causing damage, munching their way through leaves and tender plants in your garden? Well, it may sound gross, but hand-picking snails and slugs is one sure-fire way to ...

Snails drinking water off a large green leaf - Savany/Getty Images Gardening is a rewarding pastime for many, but what isn't so satisfying is the never-ending battle with pests who want to destroy ...

A few weeks ago, I published Kathy Ingraham’s testimonial regarding the disappearance of the common European brown snail from her garden. I asked readers of this column if something similar had ...

It wouldn’t seem like much of a contest, and they don’t really seem like worthy foes. At their largest, they’re a couple of inches long. Their top speed is .003 miles per hour. Flat out, with no ...

If you have a worm bin at home, you understand the efficiency of invertebrates. A healthy colony of red wrigglers can eat their collective weight every day, recycling your kitchen scraps into worm ...

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 ...

For a couple of years, I've been battling little brown round snails that are eating holes in plant leaves and leaving rasp scrapings on stems. Now there is a new conical-shaped snail in my potted ...