Do you like your frogs in your garden?

[gmreeves]

I love the frogs and toads in my garden. Do you enjoy the jumping little friends? When I first moved into my house 4 years ago there were frogs and now I have several all around. Where did they come from?

[Lorraine]

I'd love to have a frog or two in my garden - but don't have any. They are so useful for keeping the insect population down.

[endeavour]

We have loads of toads.

[Nick the Grief]

I have a couple of resident Frogs in our pond & loads of frogspawn every year but the fish put paid to most of them I'm afraid.

[TPeers]

Same here Nick, Got given the fish as a rescue job when our neighbours had to remove their pond to fit in their extension - five little fish......


Now in the order of 50............


I *had* intended a wild life pond.......

[Nick the Grief]

Mine were a pressie from my sister when she gort rid of her pond due to small Granddaughter. That was 5 I think - I have no Idea howmany there are now nut I notice a lot have 5 fins and play the banjo

[Siskin]

I love the frogs in my garden; however they can get a bit annoying in the summer when the tiny froglets are hopping about in the grass, and I have the job of catching them and putting them in my own part of the garden before my mum gets the mower out...

The larger frogs certainly keep the slugs down, anyway :-) Oh, and also enjoy giving me a heart attack by jumping out of the compost heap when I'm putting some waste on :-D

[Lesley Jay]

Hi Siskin! Welcome to our forum!

I love having frogs in our garden aswell but they drive my OH mad!!

[Simon Newman]

I like having a few frogs in my garden, even though it is very small. I hate toads though!!

[bettyboo]

Toads are the business, far better at slug eating than frogs.

[glallotments]

We have a very large community of frogs and toads on our allotments site which is quite near to man-made lagoons.

We also have had frogs cavorting in our garden pond at home. When we clear areas or use the rotavator we are constantly having to transport frogs and toads to safety. Toads are easy as they don't jump and are slower but it can be a bit of a challenge to catch the frogs - they don't seem to appreciate that if they stay put they may be shredded!!! The compost heap is a favourite winter hibernation spot!

On our allotment site we collect cans for recycling as part of our fund raising. (We need a new fence!) When we moved the can store we found lots of frogs underneath. Many of the cans were beer cans and the frogs obviously enjoyed the conditions. Many couldn't jump straight!!

All in all we love having them!

[cajary]

I like frogs in the garden but they're better with their legs in garlic butter Found the "smilies"

[runnerbean]

Glad to see you back Cajary.