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How can I get frogs to use my pond?

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  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,441

    Let us see some photos when you get round to it SG



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • Do you have plenty of water plants in your pond?  Frogs like to hide under foliage. If not this is something you could do in the second pond you are going to create.  Have a shallow side for the frogs and for any hedgehogs that might fall in, so they can get out again. Best of luck with your new project.

  • Thanks Tracey. Yes, there are plenty of plants but the sides are rather steep, which might be the problem. I'll definitely have a shallow side in the new pond.

    I never get hedgehogs in my garden either, which is sad. I've had them in all my previous gardens but never in this one. All my other gardens have been in villages though and this one is in the middle of nowhere surrounded by farmland so perhaps that's the reason.

  • linjoylinjoy Posts: 12

    I used to get frogs and spawn yearly but not for ages now.  I have newts and wonder if frogs do not like them?  Also I get masses of large green spawn from midsummer right through the winter.  What is it?

  • Forester2Forester2 Posts: 1,477

    linjoy - are you sure it's spawn and not blanket weed?

  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,108

    Blanket weed can look just like spawn when it gets a foothold - it looks 'bubbly'.

    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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