Slugs across the plant library
29 of the 505 plant guides in this library name slugs among their pests. Every one is listed below, linked to its guide and grouped by the kind of plant it is, so you can see at a glance which corners of a garden it turns up in.
This is the library read down a column instead of across a row. Each plant guide names its own pests; nobody publishes the other view — which of the plants you actually grow share one, and whether the timing they record agrees.
The 29 plants that list slugs
Grouped by plant type. Where the library attached a note to the entry — “rare”, “on seedlings”, “in wet clay” — that note is printed next to the plant, verbatim, because two plants can name the same pest and mean opposite things by it.
perennials9
biennials3
annuals15
BasilOcimum basilicum
Bok ChoyBrassica rapa subsp. chinensis
CeleryApium graveolens
Celtuce (Stem Lettuce)Lactuca sativa var. augustana
ColeusColeus scutellarioides
Endive & EscaroleCichorium endivia
LettuceLactuca sativa
MarigoldTagetes erecta / patulaon seedlings
Mexican Sunflower (Tithonia)Tithonia rotundifoliaon seedlings
MizunaBrassica rapa var. niposinica
Pansy & ViolaViola × wittrockiana
SpinachSpinacia oleracea
Sweet PeaLathyrus odoratuson seedlings
Swiss ChardBeta vulgaris subsp. cicla
TatsoiBrassica rapa subsp. narinosa
Where it concentrates
Botanical families with more than one affected plant in the library, counted from the same 29 guides above. 9 of 29 are Asteraceae.
- Asteraceae9 plants
- Brassicaceae4 plants
- Apiaceae3 plants
- Amaranthaceae2 plants
- Fabaceae2 plants
- Lamiaceae2 plants
How the library qualifies it
Every distinct note the guides attach to an entry for slugs, verbatim, with how many plants carry it. The other 21 guides list it bare, with no qualifier at all.
- on seedlings×5
- devour spring shoots
- spring shoots
- the eternal war
Shared timing — and where it doesn’t agree
These entries do not describe one shared window. The 4 guides that record a timing for slugs have no phrase in common, so there is no consensus to report and none is invented here. They are reproduced below exactly as the library holds them, each next to the plant it belongs to.
Quoted verbatim from the spray-timing fields of the guides that name slugs. Another 9 of the 29 record a program aimed at a different problem; those stay on their own guides.
- Growing
- Slug bait at emergence; mildew late is cosmetic.
- Growing
- Slug patrol in April is the make-or-break.
- Growing
- Thick-leaved 'slug-proof' types + iron phosphate bait in April; deer need fence or repellent rotation.
- Growing
- Slugs: iron phosphate bait or beer traps. Rabbits: fence — nothing else works.
Timing only — the label is the law
This page reports when the guides in this library say to watch for slugs and when a treatment is worth considering. It is not a recommendation to apply any product. Read and follow the product label before you spray — under federal law the label is the legal instruction, and using a pesticide against it is illegal.
- Check the pre-harvest interval. Every product that’s cleared for an edible crop sets a minimum number of days between spraying and picking. Find it on the label before you spray anything you intend to eat.
- Check the re-entry interval before you or anyone else works in the treated area again, and use the protective equipment the label names.
- Confirm the product is registered for your crop in your state. This page groups many different crops together, and a product legal on one of them is not legal on all of them — state registrations differ too. Your state pesticide agency or local extension office can confirm both.
- Rates and mixing instructions come from the label, never from us. We don’t publish them because they differ by product and formulation.
What else these plants get
Counted over the same 29 guides: the other problems most often listed on a plant that lists slugs. These are co-occurrences in the library’s own records, not a claim that one causes another.