For the first time. The frogs in my pond have produced frog spawn. It has taken them three years to get round to it.

Probably took them 3 years to find it

Congrats and all that Mr Imp

Dinner

tee hee. No-one but Dom could think of frogspawn as dinner Vive la difference

Implets !!

nutters

Implets!!! Does that make the stuffers babies stuffings, then?

do they know about your culinary culture

They're about to find out

Congrats! Can I join you and say me too? Just went out on the first decent day we've had, and there in the pond is a load of frogspawn! So the frogs I've been carefully relocating as slug control into my back garden were obviously getting friendly over the winter...

Now have huge dilemma.

Have three fish in the pond too... so do I get them out and put them into another receptacle for the season, or leave them where they're used to, but where they'll probably eat the tadpoles...

moonbells

And got all of them on a pic!

Ideally, if you have somewhere suitable that is not going to shock them too much, they should be moved. Alternatively, keep them well fed and hope that there are enough tadpoles for some of them to survive.

I shall check the tub of fishfood!

moonbells

Better still, do what my brother does

he punches some holes in a bucket and submerges it in the pond with the frogspawn inside it along with a little pondweed.
He lays a broom across the pond and through the bucket handle to stop it sinking.

When the tadpoles hatch they still get their microscopic food from the pondwater and weed.
When they are big enough to stand half a chance and there is plenty of plantlife to hide in, he simply empties the bucket back into the pond

Sound idea.

Does sound a good idea - though would have to disentangle the spawn from the iris pseudocorus!

Wonder if I could get a fine-holed aquatic basket (some of them have slits not holes so would be tadpole-proof) which would be perfect. Pond is so shallow that I could just put it straight in.

moonbells

oh so not fair ... I want a pond!!

Flo! You've a huge aquatic centre, what, half a mile away?! You could get a tiny plastic moulded one, sink it into the ground and dig the whole lot up when you move.

I had one in a plant pot for years, though that doesn't admit frogs!

moonbells

I'm having problems with some folk using my plot as a short cut at the moment so not quite sure where I could put it so they don't just sytamp through the middle of it!

Not good.

Could you pop a small one in the back garden like I did? We are currently trying to persuade the council to let us have them at the lotties.

I'd read that overwintering frogs need at least couple of feet of depth to survive but mine's a whole foot deep in the middle and a lot less round the edges, yet it doesn't look like the frogs mind! (I found one 6" deep in a non-holed window box; I relocated it to the back garden and is probably one of the parents of the spawn)

this chap/ess-


moonbells

We're not allowed them on our site. I've got mine hidden by my compost bins and some blackcurrant bushes I wish would bloody well hurry up.