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Any remedies for keeping slugs away from my flowers? They're feasting on the potted plants on my deck. I don't want to use poisons as my dogs hang out in the same area.
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I liked to pour salt on slugs when I was a kid.
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1. Diatomaceous earth or copper strips - they can't cross over eitherAny remedies for keeping slugs away from my flowers? They're feasting on the potted plants on my deck. I don't want to use poisons as my dogs hang out in the same area.
2. Pie pan of beer - they will drown in it
3. Get some toads
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Also works for mosquitoes.Source of the post Get some toads
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toads are cool.
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toads are cool.
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Yep, a saucer of beer will do it.1. Diatomaceous earth or copper strips - they can't cross over eitherAny remedies for keeping slugs away from my flowers? They're feasting on the potted plants on my deck. I don't want to use poisons as my dogs hang out in the same area.
2. Pie pan of beer - they will drown in it
3. Get some toads
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Food grade diatomaceous earth?1. Diatomaceous earth or copper strips - they can't cross over eitherAny remedies for keeping slugs away from my flowers? They're feasting on the potted plants on my deck. I don't want to use poisons as my dogs hang out in the same area.
2. Pie pan of beer - they will drown in it
3. Get some toads
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It's pretty wild how quickly they come out. We have two really nice Japanese Maples in the front of our house that get the sht eaten out of them every summer. Thankfully they stay mostly around the top leaves. I walk around just flicking them as hard as I can for personal satisfaction. Bonus points if they are in the act of mating.Japanese Beatles can die of gonorrhea and rot in hell. I fill a bag of them each day and they smell like **** for the next six days until the trash comes.
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When are they not?...Bonus points if they are in the act of mating.Japanese Beatles can die of gonorrhea and rot in hell. I fill a bag of them each day and they smell like **** for the next six days until the trash comes.
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I go all Orson Lannister on them...I walk around just flicking them as hard as I can for personal satisfaction.
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As first time homeowners (closed on our house this time last year) I gotta say that the instant gratification that comes with gardening/landscaping is so rewarding. We were in simple maintenance mode last year, but have been removing/replacing different areas since about April. The fact that you can completely change the look or function of an area in a weekend is the bees knees.
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I've slowly been tearing up outside landscaping that the former occupant kind of let go, to the point where there was no reusing it.
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Same, it's quite a taskI've slowly been tearing up outside landscaping that the former occupant kind of let go, to the point where there was no reusing it.
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That's a great pullI go all Orson Lannister on them...I walk around just flicking them as hard as I can for personal satisfaction.
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Leveled my mower deck today. What a difference it makes.
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This constant humidity and massive storms every other day has made mowing the lawn just awful over the past month. My grass is so hot that I'm pretty sure it's actually sweating, and my mower is having a hell of a time getting through some of the longer stuff.
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Yeah, I've mowed twice since last Saturday. And it needs done again. I should have hit it early this morning. I'll try early tomorrow
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I thought I was outsmarting the weather on Friday by mowing early in the day. I went outside around 4pm and noticed that all of the humidity left, and it would have been 100x more pleasant to mow at that time. Just can't win!
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I powered through cutting the grass last night. Was way wetter than I thought. Caught my mower up a few times but got it done.
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The grass has been so wet that it's actually sticking to the underside of my mower deck, which it doesn't do 99% of the time. I'm definitely going to have to pressure wash the deck once the season ends.
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Yeah that happened to me yesterday quite a bit.The grass has been so wet that it's actually sticking to the underside of my mower deck, which it doesn't do 99% of the time. I'm definitely going to have to pressure wash the deck once the season ends.
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I strongly recommend removing any stuck grass immediately after a mowing session. I once let a bunch of wet grass stay on the underside of my mower deck, and the result a couple days later was an amazingly stinky collection of mold under the deck. It seriously stank like something died under there; I thought at first that some critter had crawled into a corner of my garage and croaked. I now take care after I mow to pull the plug wire, tip the mower, and remove any stuck grass with a brush.
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I love having a riding tractor, but it is just such a pain in the ass to do anything like sharpen the blades, etc.
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