What single word keeps gardeners up at night, gnashing their teeth? No prizes for guessing correctly: it’s slugs.
Yes, this wee gastropod – a member of the mollusc family – is the number one garden pest the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) gets asked about and it’s no surprise why. As any gardener will tell you, the army of slugs in the average British garden (there are estimated to be approximately 200 in any cubic metre or, put another way, 200,000 in the average-sized back garden) can decimate swathes of carefully tended seedlings and tasty, soft-leaved plants like hostas, delphiniums, sweet peas and tulips in a single night.
