There’s nothing like that first spring salad you’ve been babying for weeks. And there’s nothing like walking out one damp morning to find every leaf lace-worked with holes and shiny trails everywhere.

are essentially snails without shells, terrestrial cousins of clams and oysters. They are gastropods, slime-producing mollusks that carry their stomachs inside their single “foot,” which is also their ...

They absolutely will eat slugs if they come across them. A classic organic gardening text that’s often quoted on this topic lists chickens right alongside ducks and geese as significant slug predators ...