Hi Heather!

Are you ready for endless frog bogging?
I love my bog!

The frog bog is about 10' by 10' and cost
five pizzas and one James Bond rental to dig.
(we are blessed with lots of boys around here.)
800 gallons.

It is also about 10-12" deep.
It is covered with river sized rock (2") which I would get smaller rocks if
there were to be a next time, easier to plant in.
All plants are planted directly in the rock.
And it is a bog - the mud stinks when slathered over a labrador.
The plants have totally taken over and will have to be yanked out in the fall
for a severe weeding.

This is a still pond, no water movement. No fish. I use mosquito bits. I have
lots of damsel and dragonflies nymphs living in it and around it.

It used to house bullfrogs who have all left or died off after five years.
This year I am raising Pacific Treefrog eggs in there adopted from jj's pond.
JJ did this with eggs she adopted and the babies came back to breed. That is my
hope.
I've talked to a wildlife biologist from our state fish and wildlife program
and they thought it was an idea to try. If I can get success like jj did I may
take it on as a project (Adopt - what, an Egg, Eggs, bouncing baby froglet...)

The pond has all sorts of plants in it. Cattails, lizard's tail, evil parrot's
feather, pennywort, aquatic forget-me-nots live on the edge, pickerel, even hot
pink blooming waterlilies. And best of all a volunteer plant showed up via
birdy poop - a carnivous bladderwort with delicate yellow orchid like blooms.
The plants are thriving, the lily pads are deep green and glossy. Not like the
poor lilies in the pond who don't look nearly as good (they don't get
fertilized - that's another story).

All the food the frog bog gets is last year's decaying plants and they love it.
The bog has never gone green and it is full sun.

My DD and I go out and fill a jug full of bog water and see who is in that
sample. We get damsel and dragonfly nymph, mayfly nymphs, bloodworms, seed
shrimp and other critters. We keep the deck ponds full of sample water so we
can watch the critters more closely.
We've collected out of the bog and donated them to the biology teacher at
school....

Can you tell I'm a bit batty on the subject?




k30a
and the watergardening labradors
http://www.geocities.com/watergarden...ors/index.html