With valentine's day approaching it's time for some romance, and nothing says romance like cupid's arrow… finding that one true love. One does not have to look far to see a case of cupid's arrow in real life though, in fact you really just have to look outside the back door. The brown garden snail or Helix Aspersa, that common little fellow you see munching his way across your veggie patch, has one of the most exciting and dangerous love lives in the ...

  It is about this time of year, frost and snow on the ground that we start looking for those first signs of spring to encourage us through the last of winter. I have really enjoyed hunting out all of the hundreds of crocus we planted in the autumn and watching their little heads appear. It is also the time of year I go around to check on the first shoots of my perennials. Not all are showing signs of life yet, but last week's inspection showed the Ligularia showing little pink ...

  There are two reasons we use copper slug rings over slug pellets, nematodes or other  deadly methods: Firstly, we want something child and pet safe…. Slug pellets are very appealing to little fingers and mouths and very unpleasant if eaten! Secondly, we actually quite like snails. Slugs I am trying to learn to love but largely failing. Even the amazing leopard slug mating videos can’t persuade me of their inner beauty. They are quite amazing creatures though and form ...