how do i stop frogs coming in garden - i am terrified

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just moved to a new house and had a pond filled with concrete then turfed over. now seeing frogs (i guess from hibernating over winter) and I am terrified of them, which means i am now scared to go into garden. please help what do i do. how many will come up and from where.

I once found a toad in my garden, I was terrified but wanted to keep it as I have never owned a toad before (as if you can keep them as pets!)

I relocated him to my back garden (it was found at the side of my house). I wanted him to eat all the slugs that were over taking my garden. I checked where I had left him the following morning and he was gone. I haven't seen him since and that must have been 2 years ago. He was really ugly and HUGE!

I held a cockroach in Edinburgh Zoo the other day [proud]

Mad isn't it? What people are scared of. DH has a phobia of cows, which always makes me laugh! We live in London, so it doesn't tend to ruin his life all that much!

Thread, we visited the butterfly farm just outside Edinburgh and they have a 'night creepy crawlies' section.

There was a glass box full of regular cockroaches and another with those hissing roaches.

And I had to leave.

I literally couldn't stand to go in there, that's what a phobia I've got towards those damn roaches.

They fly into your home when you open the door, crawl in through all your pipes, get into your cupboards, etc.

They are truly vile.

I have loads of things that I am scared of, geese, bees, worms, spiders, needles, cockroaches, beetles - infact, make that any creepy crawlie!

I am not scared of frogs though, just all those other things listed above!

lol@ your DH maureen being scared of cows.
My DH is scared of birds, nasty experience of lots of birds flying overhead when he was younger which resulted on him being pooped on

Luckily I've never come across roaches in areal-life situation (oh apart from inn Nicaragua where you had to lift your dinner off the table sharpish when you spotted one on the cafe table just remembered that). So facing them in the zoo wasn't so bad for me. The thought of living with them is [horror]

They fly, too, Thread. So just as you're about to smack them with something, they fly right at you.

You never, ever get into a bathtub without a good look round, either.

Once, I found one in the tub and decided to experiment on it.

I poured roach killer on it. It lived. I sprayed hair spray on it. It lived.

I poured nail varnish remover on it. It lived.

Finally I poured a pan of boiling water on it and it died.

The hissing one at the zoo pooped on my hand.

Was this in Britain expat?

I remember being on holiday with Kbear somewhere and there was a cockroach in our apartment. We managed to catch it under a pirex dish, but were too girlie to do anything with it, so it lived there for 2 weeks under the pot! I expect it was tapping away for ages, but we were probably too pissed to notice or care!

oh, no, threadworm, this was in Houston, Texas, where there are many Mexican brown-banded cockroaches and some can grow to be quite long.

Well, here is something that might surprise you! After many hours on the phone speaking to "reptile professors" in Tallahassee, I found out that if you want to deter frogs without harming them (like I wanted to) all you do is spray a heavy concentrate of "SALT WATER" around the areas you don't want them. What happens is the salt will sting the feet and this makes em move out. Be careful if you have sensitive plants.

Huh?
You've bumped a 7 year old thread to talk shite about frogs?

People are weird. And frogs aren't reptiles.

Spottedzebra
How utterly bizarre that this thread was bumped for that reason. And where the hell is Tallahassee?!

Get some wellington boots, put your coat on backwards, wear a tinfoil hat and run three times widdershins around the garden while sprinkling the ground with a watering can of holy water. All the while, make sure you shriek at the top of your voice 'Out, damned frogs! Begone!'

I guarantee it works.

Half-seriously, get a grass snake? Apart from that, I've no idea.

Damn, I should really look at the year on threads. Isn't Tallahassee in Florida? Maybe the expert in Tallahassee is a herpetologist, they do amphibians and reptiles.

This was in my garden earlier, Tia a grass snake? Shit myself a little bit when I saw it but left it to sunbathe. Lovely wildlife!!

What are frogs then, amphibians?

Yes, frogs are amphibians.

I love frogs. We often get them in the garden although we've never had a pond and, as far as I know, nor did any of the previous residents.

Frog phobics might want to stop reading now --- we've also found a couple in the house. One in the kitchen, it looked terrified, I think it must have got shut in the night before. DH found one in the downstairs loo - actually in the loo, swimming frantically - luckily he got there in time to rescue it.