| Are Toads a nuisance or helper in the veggie garden? |
| Consider yourself lucky to have toads in your garden. One toad will eat 10,000 - 20,000 insects a year, plus slugs, flies, grubs, cutworms and grasshoppers. (Frogs are equally important, they're just smaller with smaller appetites.) Protect your living benefactors and encourage them to stay by placing a small saucer of water on the ground in the garden for them to drink from, or sinking a birdbath into the soil so they can drink and bathe. I even put out a toadhouse - a terra cotta pot set upside down and propped up with a few stones. Keep the toadhouse in a shady spot and the toads will hop in to rest. |
