Shade Gardening: garden pests, 1 by bonitin

bonitin wrote:
Terese,
If you create a little pond, doesn't have to mean big expenses and create a lot of hibernating places like allowing dead logs in the garden , piled up stones, not being a too neat gardener, then I'm sure they will stay and procreate rapidly.
The pet- and eco friendly slug pellets can be a temporary solution until your community is thriving and large enough to combat the pests. The advantage I have is that I don't have to think about the problem any longer as they do the job for me.
If you could get hands on some toadspawn in next spring after you have your little pond, that could give you a good start.

Here is picture how the toad spawn looks like; they lay they eggs in double strings and tye it around waterplants