Q: The winter rains have brought out the snails again. They’ve started chewing up my bedding plants again, and I’ve tried for years but have never been able to get rid of the snails. A neighbor told ...

Q. The recent rains have brought out the snails again. They’ve started chewing up my clivia plants and I’ve never been able to get rid of the snails. A friend told me that there is a good kind of ...

Repellents and feeding deterrents are underutilized tactics for plant pest damage suppression. Here I report on laboratory and screenhouse studies that assessed a copper hydroxide-based fungicide as a ...

Q: I want to direct seed squash and cucumbers, but last year all my seedlings were eaten by snails and slugs. Is there a way to protect them from a similar fate this year? A: Snails and slugs are ...

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 ...