Did I miss your next post? Wondering if the toads will eat the snails and slugs or if the snails and slugs will accumulate inside the pot during the day, the easier to dispose of...

A bit of both. Toads will eat bugs, slugs, worms, etc. Slugs will accumulate under various items during the day and some people will place boards down in their gardens to "capture" and dispose of them(slugs, not toads).
A friend gave me this several years ago(it's terra cotta)and it has a toad in it every year...they don't 'live' in it, but seek shade during the day as the slugs do...
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At night they hang out under street lights and porch lights to catch bugs that the lights attract. When we go out after dark we always have to watch where we step so we don't squish the toadies.

That is a cute pic! Looks like he (she?) came to the front door to check out who's there :P

There were a huge number of small toads this past summer in my gardens. I put out a couple of broken pots for them to shade in, didn't actually see any toads in any of the pots though. Saw several toads burying themselves in the soil for winter hibernation this fall.

Awww, cute little toady! I love toads. We get a lot of them in the yard, and we get a lot of slugs and mosquitoes too.

Karen

Yes, all they need are a place to hide and they will come. They help tremendously with pest problems in shade gardens.

I pushed the rocks aside when I placed the house, as I had noticed they like to make a little well in the dirt...probably much cooler that way.

That is a very cute pic! I love toads too. Somewhere I read that the American toad can live for 30 years! In the same yard no less. The tadpoles live in water, so they need at least a semi-permanent shallow source of water to breed. I don't have that, but still see a toad now and then hanging around.

This guy was hanging out behind the seedlings last June -
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