On 18 Mar 2012 15:52:50 GMT, "AL_n" wrote:

Jake wrote in
:

Yesterday there were 11 distinct clumps of frog spawn in the pond

Chuck some my way! I have three new frog-ponds waiting to be populated. I
even invested in some eBay water weed (starwort and pennywort) to make them
extra tempting to froggy home-hunters.

Al

Didn't you have some frogs somewhere in your garden a while back? You
probably didn't get the ponds dug in time. But don't worry - if you
had frogs anywhere in the garden this year they will come back next
year and you may well find spawn then. It took a year or two before my
pond got colonised.

But once you get spawn, you won't look back. Frogs return to their
birthing pool to lay so if you get one lot of spawn in the first year,
you'll get 2 or 3 clumps the next and it grows from there.

Cheers, Jake
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Urgling happily from the dryer end of Swansea Bay.