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I am fortunate enough to have a pond at home and on the plots and hence plenty of frogs and toads about. In my greenhouse at home I edged the path borders with bricks over the winter and left 3 bricks piled up making a " bridge".

When I went to remove them last week, I was suprised to find that it was a hiding place for 2 toads, well it was dark, warm and wet and near to a ready food supply so I cant fault them. Since then I have piled "3 brick bridges" in my site tunnels and greenhouse and already two are occupied by frogs.

With slug control "every little helps"

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Kindest regards, David.

http://pigletsplots.blogspot.com/
updated - Sunday 19th at 2100hrs

Might have to dig a pond and grow bricks in it then PW!! Slugs and snails appeared as if by magic yesterday evening when it turned damp!! Bricks might be cheaper than critter-friendly slug pellets!

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Happy Gardening,
Shirley

http://www.honeyjukes.co.uk

Last year I had a toad, I think - he lived under the greenhouse. He gave me a bit of a fright the first time, but then I kept my eyes open for him. Bless!

Bernie aka Dexterdog

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Appreciate the little things in life because one day you will realise they are the big things

All help with bug control most appreciated. I was digging yesterday on the lottie and had a robin and two blackbirds helping

Weve got toads and newts or our site I found out the other day so a site pond is called for I think

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ntg

Never be afraid to try something new.
Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark.
A large group of professionals built the Titanic

http://grief-encounters.blogspot.com/

I have several families of toads in my polytunnel as its near a large pond tye do help with slug control thats for sure but still make me jump when I move a pot or some such and they jump ut. Great for the kids to watch too.

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Bec
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Am now happy - I can get out in the polytunnel again with the warmer weather.

I was digging up and moving the soil from a large mound we made about 3 years ago when I was removing turf for more veg! I stacked the turf 'green side down' and left it to rot. It's made lovely loam - but it still has huge white roots of bindweed in. However, I digest! The point of this ramble is that I unearthed 3 toads, one big, two small, from what seemed to be a mound of solid soil. I went a bit carefully after the first - I was afraid of chopping someone's legs off. I wonder what they were living off in there? I transferred them to a well vegetated border so they had some protection from the rooks that roam around looking for something to kill. We have 2 small ponds in the back garden and one in the front.

Flum

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Earth laughs in flowers. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Updated November 30th - Mr Stinky's Excellent Adventure (and a Christmas Cake)

When I first saw the title of this thread it reminded me of a very painfull operation I had a few years ago

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ntg

Never be afraid to try something new.
Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark.
A large group of professionals built the Titanic

http://grief-encounters.blogspot.com/