Just moved and children afraid to go out at night because of frogs in garden by the door.
2006-06-13 08:49:26 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Home & Garden ➔ Do It Yourself (DIY)
kiss them for a garden full of princes!
2006-06-13 08:54:58 · answer #1 · answered by scwihm 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are they frogs or toads? Frogs usually don't go for gardens unless there is a fountain or other water feature. Toads, on the other hand like moist areas - like your garden, and places where insects are plentiful. Remove or limit one of the 2 and the toads will find another place to live. Try watering your garden early in the morning, so it's dry by evening. Check for ants, aphids, mealy bugs or sow bugs in the garden. Spray appropriately to eliminate them. Soapy water is a good start without using chemicals. Malathion is a mild chemical pesticide and available at the garden center. Also linterplant calendulas, geraniums or mums amoung your plants to help convince bugs to move along. Getting the bugs down and a dryer environment will disuade the toads.
2006-06-13 09:00:05 · answer #2 · answered by castlebeads 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Get the kids on the net to find out about frogs, we are affraid of what we do not understand. Show them that the frogs eat the bugs that distroy the garden, they eat the miscquitos that bite the kids. They will love all the color pictures on yahoo images. Frogs are good!
Itsy
2006-06-13 08:58:32 · answer #3 · answered by itsybitsykity 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My two kids will race right over-LOL
They are fun to play with. my two kids boy and girl 12 and 14 go up by fresno evry year to grampas back yard to play with the things. No-never got a wart from them. The only harm from a frog that can be done is from a dog, they foam at the mouth from a frogs skin after biting then so I found out. Dog now leaves alone
2006-06-15 13:14:05 · answer #4 · answered by bill s 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would think the frogs would be good for your garden being that they eat bugs. But, I would suggest you trap the critters by leaving a light close to the area at night. This will attract the night bugs and the froggies will be hanging out nearby for supper. ORRRRR....let the Cat out at night!
2006-06-13 11:20:10 · answer #5 · answered by Sassy OLD Broad 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Toads eat tons of bugs. They're great to have in a garden. Read "Frog and Toad are Friends" to your kids. Help them learn that toads are a good thing. A word of warning: when you pick them up, they pee on you, so be prepared for that. Use two fingers and hold them up under their front legs, and they'll miss you.
2006-06-13 09:15:47 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bring in snakes. They will eat the frogs for you and very likely stay out of sight. Ribbon snakes (a relative of the Garter snake)are pretty good frog eating snakes and are utterly harmless to humans.
2006-06-13 09:01:58 · answer #7 · answered by Georges 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Convince your neighbor that they need ladybugs to eat the aphids, and tiny predator bugs. One big box of ladybugs released NEXT door will drive all of your frogs/toads over to the neighbors!!! (wicked, eh?!)
2006-06-13 12:45:11 · answer #8 · answered by jombojolly 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Salt?
2006-06-13 08:52:43 · answer #9 · answered by Bizzy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
catch them or tel them to go or call the police
2006-06-13 08:53:41 · answer #10 · answered by sara 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋