07-10-2016 23:36 via ktoo.org

Gardentalk – The best slug birth control is a clean garden

Seaweed and other beach gatherings (those leaves should probably be picked out) serve as a mulch in this garden bed featuring recently planted garlic. For empty garden beds, it’s preferable to mix the seaweed into the soil so that it decomposes faster. (Photo by Matt Miller/KTOO)
Those dying and yellowing plants that you have in your garden? Get rid of them, or they’ll just become prime habitat for egg-laying slugs this fall.
Master Gardener Ed Buyarski explained the basic garden cle
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