You're in a nice hot zone, so you can continue growing. This means maybe some flowers that attract beneficials in the soil. I let go a few wild goldenrods in my garden hoping to attract more ground beetles, they eat the larvae. Do you have squash bugs or squash vine borer? Those are especially good for squash vine borers. Also a lizard or bird is good, put a nice water fountain to attract lots of beneficials. You can go the roundup method, some do this at the beginning of growing season only or at the end, maybe both, but it will kill anything, not organic. Even your worms can say goodbye with this. Pyrethrin daisies, painted daisies, and shasta daisies have pyrethrin oil in the flower, so you are in a zone that still can grow something all year even. Daisies should grow very nicely in your bed. These daisies are used to make the professional pyrethrum sold in stores as insecticides, good on squash bugs, not sure on squash vine borers, it's the oil from the blooms, not the roots or leaves. Potash with meat grease, or actually lye, will soften the backs of the squash bugs, the pyrethrum will seep into them and kill. A double whammy! Then with the ground beetles, lizards, birds, and what ever else beneficials attracted to a water fountain, will kill anything else. You want so far as I've learned just a week ago by a few posters with some proven effectiveness , to let parsley flower, maybe even cilantro, and dill, pennyroyal, and mints to attract lots of parasitic wasps. You can work the area over until next year to have nothing there in your soil. Then more recently I read of soil solarization, cover your area in clear plastic for a few months with blazing hot weather, it kills everything too, so any worms might not make it, but maybe they will have time to run. There's lots of talk about lights attracting svb, so a bug lamp or a bright solar lit yellow light might be all you need. The frogs will come to eat what's leftover on the ground, so another double whammy.

Alrichson, I'm really sorry to hear that you're going through this. You need a pest control professional, not do-it-yourself products. Bedbugs can be very difficult to control. If you're in an apartment, tell your mother to check the terms of the lease - sometimes it is the responsibility of the landlord or management to do pest control. Additionally, there's a good possibility that neighboring units are also infested, so treating your place alone would not be enough. Contact your landlord. Get a real pest control professional involved. Don't try to do this yourself.

I can say from experience that the Insinkerator Evolution Pro Excel is very quiet. Much quieter than any other disposal I've experienced, although a tad louder than a Miele dishwasher. Even the rubber collar at the sink drain is designed to cause flowing water to block upward propagating sound. (This does lead to having to push smaller items such as piles of tea leaves through it rather than expecting them to flow through as they would have on the older design drain collars.) NOTE however, that the distance from the drain to the exit port is slightly larger than for a standard disposal, and if your plumbing trap weir location is just adequate for a standard design, it may not be easily adaptable to the Evolution. If your weir is presently at least an inch or so below the port of your present disposal, then it should be ok. I have found good prices at PEX Supply. kas

Thanks Mikerno, I hope you are right! I've had them up on a stand the whole time. But the snail climbed up the legs of the table. I have since found (and removed) the snail that caused the damage and I have put copper tape around the legs of the table (I read online that snails cannot walk on copper). So hopefully that'll keep the snails away from now on. My main concern now is that the 5 damaged plants survive.