You only need these 5 items to banish slugs from your yard

Slugs can devastate gardens overnight, destroying young seedlings, munching through lettuce heads, and leaving slime trails across your carefully tended plants. Spring is prime slug season when warm, damp weather brings them out in force to feast on tender new growth.

Many slug control methods such as beer traps, copper tape and salt, harm or kill slugs in ways that disrupt your garden's ecosystem. Beer traps drown them, copper tape delivers electric shocks, and salt dehydrates them to death. These approaches also risk harming beneficial wildlife like hedgehogs and birds that eat slugs.

Fortunately, there are gentler deterrent methods using common household items that keep slugs away without killing them.

1. Create barriers with egg shells

Line your garden borders or surround vulnerabl