Help, my pond is teaming with frog spawn, and still they're pouring in from the surrounding area, I've never seen so much of the stuff :-)Bet the toads are waiting in the wings, won't be much room left for them , Every time you walk in the garden you can hear all these frogs plopping under the water, poor old fish, must be a bit crowded. The bit i hate is when the little froglets start comimg out of the pond, and get in the way of my hubby mowing,I make my daughter walk around with a stick tapping the grass hoping it'll frighten them into the borders.Then she gets worried that he's going to kill one or two of them,if only she knew.!
Ladst year though, they all seemed to disappear at once,something had obviosly had a good feast, but i'm not sure what, must have had a big appetite!I shall be watching the pond with anticipation this year , hoping a few survive, i've built lots of raised stone walls last autumn so there's loads of hidey holes for them.
Froggies
Your post has made me think i really must get on with building my pond this year!! I've designed hidey holes and different habitats for different beasties in the garden, but as yet NO POND!
Hearing about yours has got me all enthusiastic. But i must remember to site it away from the lawn LOL! :-)
Hi Philomel, yes having a pond was a good decision, the kids around here love it. Part of it is covered by deck, and they all lie on this peering into the water ,they can spend hours collecting all sorts of wildlife. there's a tub of frog spawn in my sun lounge right now :-)
we seem to be swarming ewith newts too. Last year the kids from next door was over ,and they had a big bucket full of newts, which at the end of the day they left behind. Next day they were out, and as it was going to be a hot day I told my daughter to take them back over the fence(we have a low bit by the playhouse so the kids can go back and forth ) and tip them back into the pond, as it cruel to keep them in the bucket.She did, but told me that Mark 9my neighbour )wasn't going to be best pleased, and he wasn't eithere .it seems he'd spent the afternoon fishing all these things out of his pond, as they were eating his fish eggs,and we tipped them all back !!!!!!!i think he gave up then LOL.you must get around to doing it, it's great fun, I love sitting on my hammock on the deck just watching the pond, verrrryyyy relaxing YYYYAaAAWwwwwnnnn zzzzzzzzzzzzz
Nothing like a pond in the garden is there.
Sue, you have newts? You lucky thing! We also seem to have more than our fair share of frog spawn this year, I wonder if someone in the area has filled in their pond over the winter and they have all flocked to ours.
you'd think that with all the hopping things in my garden i'd have no slugs, but no chance, they're rife ! Mind you I saw a thrush on my lawn eating the old fallers, that's the first time that i've seen one for ages.Just hope the cat's don't get him :-)I do try not to use pellets, I don't in my flower gardens but a couple of times I've resoted to it in my potager, after they've munched their way through 3 lots of veggies that i put out I gave in and put some down, hated doing it.