Toads In The Garden

[Beth_B]

Me too BethB. I'd like them to keep the slugs down but I'd have to get little pond of some sorts so they'd stay. I don't want the grass to look greener......! I used to enjoy listening to the frogs when we had a pool which wasn't swimmable in the off season unfortunately for us but fortunately was for the frogs.

I've been in this house for five years; for the first three I had a very humble pond - a 55-gallon Rubbermaid container sunk in the ground. Fish and plants in it and it did great (I did bring the fish in for winter.) I had leopard frogs around it all summer, although they didn't spawn in there. Probably too small.

This spring I dug a much larger pond - still humble but somewhere between 400-500 gallons. Plants, fish, lilies, rocks, etc. And....not a single frog. Every time I walk out there I'm hoping to hear "plop, plop" of frogs jumping in the water.

 

[DeborahJane]

Did you hear the one about the frog and the librarian. She couldn't find a book he wanted to borrow.....kept saying " read it read it". Hope the frogs return to you, especially when you've gone to the trouble of providing such wonderful accommodation.

 

[Beth_B]

LOL!!

 

[Trellum]

They only eat pests, they don't damage anything. Today I had five with me while I watered. Two of them were in that tiny pot haha!

That is good to know I was a bit worried they could be a bit destructive, because some of them are quite huge It's good to know they are actually friends to our gardens =D

 

[Corzhens]

We have around 30 to 50 toads around the house - in the backyard garden, in the planter box by the side of the house, in the front garden. Toads are anathema to dogs for their poisonous skin so I had planned of eradicating them. I hired a person to collect the toad in the garden and put it inside a sack. He got around 20 or so including the small toads. But after sometime, the toads were back.

 

[R.R.]

That is good to know I was a bit worried they could be a bit destructive, because some of them are quite huge It's good to know they are actually friends to our gardens =D

These are. I thought of y'all this morning when I was watering and, before waking up the frogs, I decided to go inside and get the camera. I like them so much that I'm seriously thinking about building some kind of habitat for them so they can have little tadpoles

Wait for it, there is a second frog in the pot:

 

[DeborahJane]

How cute RR. Thank heavens the first one jumped out. He was sitting right on top of the other one!

 

[R.R.]

Yeah, I was starting to worry about the second one. I thought it would drown!

 

[Trellum]

These are. I thought of y'all this morning when I was watering and, before waking up the frogs, I decided to go inside and get the camera. I like them so much that I'm seriously thinking about building some kind of habitat for them so they can have little tadpoles

Wait for it, there is a second frog in the pot:

Awwww, look at those two!!! I wonder if they were up to something? Maybe thinking about making more baby toads Those are lovely, i wish there were that kind of visitors to my garden and pots on a daily basis. They are sooo lovely! It's be so nice of you to build a habitat , I'm sure they'd love it!!

 

[R.R.]

I wonder if there's a cheap way to build a habitat for them. I want them to stay