How to help frogs / toads
Helski
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We don't have a pond and don't want one for various reasons. However we regularly find frogs/toads in the garden and want to encourage them.
We don't use slug pellets or pesticides on the whole so don't think we're doing anything to annoy the frogs and toads but would like to give them a bit of help if we can.
Any suggestions for what we can do?
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It sounds as if you're doing well already, but you could leave some damp shady corners with low growing plants for them to lurk undisturbed and maybe create a woodpile of logs http://www.wildaboutgardens.org.uk/habitats/log-pile.aspx
Last edited: 07 May 2017 19:37:29
I assume you may not want a pond for safety reasons,small children etc?
A pond could be a small bowl or dish of water tucked away,though being small it may need topping up in dry weather.
Frogs and toads really only need a larger pond for breeding so there may be somewhere in your area that fits the bill already.
Other than that I would do as Dove says and keep doing what you already do.
Thank you dove and penguin. I'll keep doing what we're doing and find something small to put some water in. Perhaps we'll find something at the Malvern show,can't wait
If you don't want a pond, a bog garden would be good for your wildlife
See this old thread http://www.gardenersworld.com/forum/wildlife-gardening/making-a-bog-garden/86518.html
I have a half barrel with water and a tiny solar fountain my tortoise enclosure just half sunken into the soil with lots of large leaved plants around it, even a little water is better than none
I have an abandoned waterfall waterfeature in my garden, the pond is really tiny, (about 50cm in diameter I guess and maybe 40cm deep) but it housed 4 or 5 grown up frogs and one salamander last year. The waterfall part, is hollow underneath and overgrown so it gives cool shelter outside the water.
This afternoon a girlfriend of ours brought us some tadpoles as there seemed to be only one frog left in the pond and it takes two to tango.
So a bit of water and shelter is all frogs need. The "pond" probably can be as small as a household bucket.
Last edited: 09 May 2017 18:58:32
Salamandar?! How exotic! Whereabouts are you ....... roughly?
Last edited: 09 May 2017 19:03:29
Checked my tiny pond today and found a second frog and the salamander is also still there.
Didn't know you have wild salamanders in the Netherlands - wonder why we don't have them over here.
the other day we watched Smooth newts doing their courtship display in our pond ... Wonderful
There is a shallow sloping area in your pond to enable the frogs to leave the water isn't there ?
Last edited: 12 May 2017 06:54:39