Seedlings and Frogs

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Frogs

Can't believe how quickly our allotment is coming together this year everything is so exciting. Our pond has really established over the last 10 months since we built it, in fact it's teeming with life. Of the original 5 goldfish we bought from the pet shop; which was an adventure in itself, you would think you were adopting children the rigmarole you have to go through just to buy goldfish. Anyway of the 5 originals sadly, only 3 survived, 2 of them died within weeks of going in the pond but the other 3 are huge now and always come out when we are there. The rest of the fish, your guess is as good as mine as to where they came from lol. Maybe they were eggs in the plants or our fish gave birth but there must be about 30 in there now, little black and gold ones, black ones, white and gold ones, white and black ones. The frogs have started mating and I counted 5 in there today and buckets of frogspawn, game on, lol the slugs are gonna get it this year lol.
As for my seedlings, I don't know what's going on with them, I know I used the wrong compost for some of them but come on how do they know??? lol My cauliflower, cabbage, brocolli, pumpkin have all come through but no peppers, tomatoes or melons yet! but I am with some things 2 months earlier with my sowing this year so maybe it's still a bit cold for them yet, I have got them in an unheated greenhouse in propagators, but this time last year I didn't even have a greenhouse so I'll see what happens lol