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Brown garden slug with antenna on a green lettuce leaf. - Jeffrey2/Shutterstock Slugs and snails are legless, slimy mollusks that love to chew on foliage, fruits, and vegetables. They come out at ...

Snails and slugs are common pests in gardens. They belong to the mollusk family along with oysters, and they crawl along over a thin layer of slime that they produce to ease their way. Snails carry a ...

It's little wonder that so many of us are desperate to learn Monty Don's top tips for banishing slugs and snails; the gardening pro, after all, has rarely steered us wrong in the past, so if he says ...