How I made my own frog ponds

Here's a quick look at how I made my frog ponds which are situated in my back garden, in front of the conservatory. I've had them a few years now and they never fail to delight.

I bought a couple of those long plastic (and waterproof) planter things that are under a foot in depth and literally dug a couple of holes and sunk them into the ground. I popped them at the border of my garden by the conservatory wall, with shade from a small tree and lots of border plants. I put in some of those goldfish tank type oxygenating plants, some rocks for potential froggies to climb in and out and got it started off with a couple of baby frogs donated from kids school (and water snails).

These fairly small frog ponds were an instant hit with local froggies, toads, newts and dragon flies and of course the kids! The planters I used to create the frog ponds are small enough for you to be able see everything going on and very easy to keep clean.

The frog ponds are perhaps no more than 2.5ft long, 10inches depth and maybe 10 inches deep.

They don't get dirty particularly and so the water is always nice and clean. In the summer I top the water level up and ensure the frogs always have a rock accessible to climb in and out regardless of falling and rising water levels.

A major bonus of the frog ponds is that my slug population has gone down to almost zero since having the ponds for a couple of yrs and before that they were gross with regards to how many of them there were and where they were! In my kitchen sometimes.

Everyone should have a frog pond :)

Please do post about your frog ponds here, I'd love to see and read about them.

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