On 4/3/08 20:37, in article ,
"Baal" wrote:

Put a small pond on my allotment but no frogs last year or this! Want to
kill those snails/slugs without chemicals!

Apart from stealing frogs, any ideas on how I can encourage them?

Some spawn from a nearby pond, perhaps? Two of our ponds are newish and had
no spawn last year but both have large clumps of it this year, so presumably
the frogs and toads found it for themselves quite happily. Their habitat
is in decline so they may need some encouragement to find it. If it isn't
dangerous to local frog communities to introduce spawn - IF - taking some
from a friend's pond to yours might be a start.
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