General Chat

Judith - convuvulous=bindweed right ? If so, brute force to pull up/hack back the bulk of it & then you can get a systemic weedkiller that you carefully paint on the rest & bingo - it's gone in a couple of weeks. June - all I ask is one little tadpole to turn into a frog ! Living in the city it's nice to ge a reminder of the countryside in your back yard. Rick.

Hi. What a game I had with frogs in my pond. Last year they got out of hand. so I fished them out and put them in a large container and all the frogspawn in a bucket. Took them up to a large lake not very far away, and put them in there by the reeds. Had to go 4 times to the lake the total of the frogs was 376. This year I have not as many in there. By the way I have fish in my pond as well. Bye now June.

Judith, I was told by a neighbour that frogs are very resouceful and will find another home fairly easily. The only thing you should never do is dig a pond up at this time of year without taking care to transport any spawn somewhere safe. I actually considered filling in my pond and putting a herb garden in its place when I moved in 2 years ago (didn't know about the frogs then). Glad I didn't now as it always makes me smile to come down to breakfast and look out of the window to see a dozen froggy eyes staring back from the surface of the pond ! Rick.

Hi Margaret, My "pond" is so small you can't fit much more than a few tadpoles in it !! There are no fish and although there's a pump with a filter, I didn't switch it on last year while the spawn or tadpoles were around to avoid making frog soup. My guess is that they didn't develop properly - never saw any tadpoles with proper legs growing although they got quite big. Just wondered it it could have been disease or their environment - something that I could have done maybe ? Rick.

Rick for a start have you a filter in your pond they could have been sucked in to that also have you any fish in the pond they tend to eat them, what i do is take out some of the spawn in to anorther small pond i have when big enough so the fish dont eat them pop them back into the other pond i have loads of frogs

Any wildlife experts out there ? I inherited a 2'6'' x 5' pond with my new house a couple of years ago along with a host of local wildlife. Last year about a dozen frogs produced an unbelievable amount of frogspawn, which duly hatched into tadpoles. They swam around for weeks & weeks - well into summer. I looked up on the internet to see how long they should take to turn into frogs & it said 6-10 weeks. After about 3-4 months they disappeared all bar a few floating dead bodies. Never saw a single "froglet". This year there's even more frogspawn. My instinct is to leave well alone, but can anyone say if I should have noticed if they had successfully made to adultfroghood ? Or did they all die and could I have done something to prevent it ? Rick.