frogspawn

[Nicos]

Anyone got any yet?? Not even seen a frog

[andrewo]

Had it in my water butt one year but have seen nothing yet!

[Nicos]

Used to get it on the old allotment. It was so wet,that when we were digging in the spring, we would go back the next day and find bucket loads of the stuff!! Hence the bath pond! At home we only have a tiny pond, and it is located underneath a willow tree. As we have 2 cats too, we thought it would be cruel to try and have fish, so we encourage frogs and toads instead.
Just thought how did your frog manage to jump into your waterbutt??

[Berr]

Have it in the garden pond every year- can't start the pump till they're weaned, or whatever you call it. No sign yet; checked yesterday. Central Scotland. It'd be interesting to find out when it appears in different parts of the UK.

[dragonz]

the frogs and toads have come out to say hello but no frogspawn in our pond yet

[Jaxom]

I would love to have some spawn for my garden. This year I am going to use nematodes to get the slugs but real toads would be so much better. I'll have to go looking in the wild for some.
Jax

[Nicos]

Jaxom - I understand that frogs and toads will try and find their way back home and that if you want them to stay , you need to collect the spawn. Don't know how accurate that is, but I know it also applies to slugs- so if you chuck a slug into the next door neighbours garden, it will travel home again!! My mother inherited a pond many years ago when she moved house and hated frogs.At least 100 mating frogs would appear every spring to her horror singing love songs and doing what mating frogs do(!!!) . She finally decided to fill in the pond against all our plees but they continued to visit for many years in gradually reducing numbers. A very sad tale I now feel duty bound to make ammends!

[Lesley Jay]

Nicos that is what I have read much to my Husbands dismay. He is not impressed at all with all the frogs in HIS pond. The garden is full of them every year and we get tons of frog spawn. I didn't know that slugs were like that though. What about snails?

[fruit&vegvirgin]

mmm, well we've got lots of frogs and/or toads (how do you tell the difference?) however, we don't have a pond as such, although there are various pretty boggy bits, in the field especially. instead we filled in the old anchorage for a wartime barrage balloon with rubble and water, put a grid over the top, then lots of stones and planted bulrushes etc. all thriving, and home to hundreds of them.
early spring/summer, the cats bring in v. small ones, increasing in size until they are too big to be caught.

[Jaxom]

Frogs spawn is lots of jelly balls with black dots in it; spawn is laid in clumps and floats in large clumps. Toad spawn is similar but instead of being laid in clumps it is strung out in cords like strands of jelly spaghetti.
Frogs spawn close up http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...s/October-2004 or http://www.yorku.ca/yfile/archive/in...p?Article=3028
Toad spawn http://www.e2bn.net/e2bn/microweb/mi.../toadspawn.jpg
Or http://www.durrellwildlife.org/index.cfm?p=299
Jax

[Nicos]

F&V - frogs jump and toads crawl!

[dragonz]

frogs are smooth, toads are lumpy

[Clarea1]

At our old house there used to be apond but they old guy filled in in as he moved out and it became our veg plot. We moved in January and by march the garden was crawling with frogs and toads who had obviously come back to breed. they were laying the spawn in the rockery and it was drying out so I sunk some shallow horse feed buckets into the borders and filed them with water,, few small rocks etc so they could spawn. Every few days I took the buckets to a near by drain and released the spawn. I hope i did the right thing for the frogs, we couldn't really have had a pond as we didn't have time and I would never have been able to leave my step - daughter to play without supervision!

We have found a couple of frogs at the new house and I would love a barrell water feature to encourage them. It is going to go in my 'nature corner'! With wild flowers not weeds as OH mocks!

[dragonz]

my nan had a half barrel water feature with a few frogs living in it, she used to go out and talk to them, says she got more sense out of them than out of my grandad LOL, after the moved house, no more room for a frog pond barrel

[Nicos]

We have finally got frogspawn!!