{"id":975,"date":"2025-11-18T12:15:34","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T11:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/ali\/?p=975"},"modified":"2025-11-18T12:33:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T11:33:19","slug":"toad-homes-easy-wildlife-allies-for-slug-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/ali\/toad-homes-easy-wildlife-allies-for-slug-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Toad homes \u2014 easy wildlife allies for slug control"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"363\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/ali\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/164\/2025\/11\/toad.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-984\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/ali\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/164\/2025\/11\/toad.jpg 650w, https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/ali\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/164\/2025\/11\/toad-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/ali\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/164\/2025\/11\/toad-520x290.jpg 520w, https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/ali\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/164\/2025\/11\/toad-320x179.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Toad helping to keep slugs under control organically <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Invite amphibian neighbours to help eat slugs \u2014 cheap, natural and effective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How to set up<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Shelters:<\/strong> Create hides from <strong>upturned clay pots<\/strong>, log piles, stone piles or purpose-made toad boxes in cool, damp, sheltered parts of the garden. Place near compost heaps, borders and water sources. GardenAdvice highlights upturned pots and log piles as excellent toad refuges. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Pesticide-free zone:<\/strong> Avoid chemicals nearby so toads remain healthy \u2014 they eat great numbers of slugs nightly and are a top natural control. For more habitat ideas see GardenAdvice toad guidance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toad helping to keep slugs under control organically Invite amphibian neighbours to help eat slugs \u2014 cheap, natural and effective. How to set up<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gardening-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/ali\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/ali\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/ali\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/ali\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/ali\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/ali\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/ali\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/ali\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/ali\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/ali\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}