KEEPING pests out of your potted plants and flower beds can feel like a full-time job. Snails and slugs are active all year round but are often warm weather culprits ...

Snails and slugs are similar in structure and biology, but snails have a characteristic spiral shell while slugs lack a shell. They both chew irregular holes on a variety of plants, preferring to feed ...

A GARDENING expert has revealed his top tip for keeping pests away from your vegetable patch ahead of harvest time. He said his organic pest control hack also repels creatures that would destroy ...

All is not well in our earthly paradise. If the poet William Blake had looked more closely at 'England's green and pleasant land,' he'd have discovered a welter of galls, cankers, mildews, blights, ...

Snails are common in most gardens with an average of 200 snails living in a cubic metre of soil. Snails love the damp or moist weather so with recent storms they are being spotted much more often than ...

Gardeners plagued by snails munching through their prized plants have been advised to develop a strong throwing arm, and BOWL the pests out of their gardens. Removing snails at least 20 metres (65 ...

The British Invasion by the Beatles may not have been much of a problem to American gardens, but the French invasion by brown snails is. Since getting imported as escargot, they eat much more than ...