frogs ?
can anyone help. i have discovered a family of small frogs in our garden.
we have no pond or indeed running water. i intend turning a lot of the garden around shortly but would like the frogs to stay.
i have no provision for constant running water. can anyone advise what i can do to create and environment that they would be happy in ?.
thanks in hope = stan cotter
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Greenwellies Posted at 14:27 on Wed, 08/11/2010Hi Stan
I have a small pond with about 6 frogs living in it all year round. Around late Feb/early March the numbers swell to about 30 mating frogs. I know what you mean about the noise. They only need water to mate. The rest of the time they go on their merry way to live under and behind rocks and other natural features. All my neighbours get the benefit of their slug eating activities. They can also bury themselves to keep cool and to hibernate over winter. I sometimes come across them on my allotment during my spring dig.
A word of warning about making a pond out of a bath. Float a peice of wood in the bath as night birds, mainly owls, can mistake the water for a shallow pool, fall in, then be unable to get out and drowned. The wood allows the bird to get purchase to get out of the water.
Good luck.
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stan cotter Posted at 14:25 on Sat, 08/14/2010hi greenwellies,
thanks your advice, i am green at this game as only got into gardening about 2 years ago and hadnt (and still dont) have much clue about it
the area where we are is really bad with clay with very shallow soil then soil goes deeper than i have dug into.
the frog, now have numerous small frogs in around the garden and was bothered about upsetting them by turning part of the garden over, particularly as this the area where i first discovered them. but now find in a small dish about
9/10 across what looks like tadpoles but will have to wait and see.
thanks again for your help regards stan
frogs what we do to build a small pond in kirkbys allotments
joseph woosey Posted at 14:36 on Sat, 07/31/2010if you have not got a pond what we do around kirkby we ask the council for an old bath or if you no where you can get one and waterproof the plug into the plug hole and then turn it upside douwn and mark around it were you are going to put it with a stick and then you dig the hole and put the bath into it make shure it is level onc that is done fill it with water till it is full you can add a waterliley margenels by puting the baskets on bricks if you put a small rock on the top of the basket by the side so the frogs can clime out once it is all planted out you will besurprised what wildlife will cum to your new bath pond joey woosey northwood kirkby allotments
frogs what we do to build a small pond in kirkbys allotments
joseph woosey Posted at 14:36 on Sat, 07/31/2010if you have not got a pond what we do around kirkby we ask the council for an old bath or if you no where you can get one and waterproof the plug into the plug hole and then turn it upside douwn and mark around it were you are going to put it with a stick and then you dig the hole and put the bath into it make shure it is level onc that is done fill it with water till it is full you can add a waterliley margenels by puting the baskets on bricks if you put a small rock on the top of the basket by the side so the frogs can clime out once it is all planted out you will besurprised what wildlife will cum to your new bath pond joey woosey northwood kirkby allotments
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splodgeit Posted at 14:27 on Thu, 06/24/2010Frogs only need ponds during the mating season, they will always go back to mate in the pond where they were born, when about 4 to 5 years old. The rest of the time they will live anywhere it is damp, they are very for the garden so do all you can to keep them
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stan cotter Posted at 10:26 on Fri, 06/25/2010hi splodgeit = many thanks your advice, have also found out that they are very noisy during the mating season. have found where they come from, an immediate neighbour but i am enjoying a relatively slug free time at the moment so they are welcome to stay and visit anytime they like. i have kept two areas in the garden damp regular specially in this hot weather. so lets hope they stay
i am located in widnes but i am a liverpudlian and getting advice from all over the place. once again many thanks, your advice is really appreciated = stan +
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GreenFly Posted at 20:25 on Wed, 06/23/2010Hi Stan,
Theres lots of info on the web such as
http://www.dgsgardening.btinternet.co.uk/frog.htm
We used to have frogs in the garden at my old house also but no pond, it turned out the frogs were travelling between neighbours ponds. Probably stopped in my garden as I seem to attract slugs everywhere I go!
Good Luck
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stan cotter Posted at 13:18 on Thu, 06/24/2010hi greenfly, many thanks for your advice, everything comes in useful.
we have discovered since my request that our immediate neighbour has a small pond and this years had literally dozens of tadpoles and this is the result.
our other neighbour has a pond but has fish in his, so like yourself we could be just a passing through place for food and refreshment, we have loads of slugs but have noted lately that the numbers have been down, so roll out the frogs.
we are in widnes cheshireand my gardening experience is only about 18 months so at 73 and asthmatic is causes its problems but it keeps me occupied.
once again thanks for your help
many regards stan.