Will it be safe to eat the stuff we are going to grow? It seems weird to me. We are doing a veggie/fruit garden over my mom's house and she wants to put "organic fertilizer" (POOP!) in the dirt. What is the proper way to do this? This is the first time I've grown anything so any tips would be helpful! Thanks!

You can however…with what cows and horses are fed these days..the manure isn't that rich in anything that benefits the plants. Your best bet is to go to a nursery and buy some bagged fertilizer. Fertilizing also in the heat will burn your plants.. so do so wisely.

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I need a cheap and easy way to get rid of them. Preferably something I could find at home or in a supermarket.

plain old black pepper repels a lot of things; stale beer in a shallow container will attract the snails and then they will drown (leave the dead snails and slugs in the container, the smell of the rotting critters will attract their brethern and you will catch even more of them; not-quite-pulverized eggshells strewn any place that you see the snail trails will pierce the snail's delicate skin.