![]() The top edge of the bowl should be flush with the soil level. An old washing up bowl (well rinsed out)įirst dig out a space in one of your borders and sit the washing up bowl in it.If you’d like to make one too, here’s what you’ll need: The kids helped and it took us about 30 minutes. Within minutes, I had hightailed it outside, after grabbing an old washing up bowl from under the sink, to make a mini pond. In fact, after reading mum’s text, I immediately decided to build a mini frog pond. There must be a pond in a nearby garden that they use, but I’d like to encourage them to stay in my garden and produce baby frogs. It’s fun to watch them hop about, and they are great predators of garden pests such as slugs and snails. I often come across them when I’m working on the borders. But we do have lots of frogs in the garden. I don’t have a proper wildlife pond, just a tub pond that is home to some nice pond plants (marsh marigold, flag irises, equisetum), and a couple of goldfish. #Making a mini ramp full#Garden ponds will soon be chock full of frogspawn, floating balls of jelly with little, black dots at the centre that will turn into tiny tadpoles and then froglets. The blue tits in my garden are frantically nesting, male blackbirds are squabbling noisily over territory, and I assume rabbits in the fields are enthusiastically doing what rabbits do. It’s that time of year when all sorts of creatures are busy making babies. I think I can safely assume that “wrestling” was my mum’s euphemism for “having sex”. I got a text from my mum yesterday informing me that her pond was full of wrestling frogs. ![]()
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