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Post by sweetpea on Jul 9, 2015 22:31:31 GMT
My 'Wildlife' pond is covered in duckweedand when trying to fish it out using my homemade 'net' I take out a load of tadpoles. looks like I will have to wait until they turn into frogs and leave the pond before I can safely get rid of the duckweed.
Unless anyone got any better ideas.
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Post by Cherry on Jul 10, 2015 4:55:13 GMT
We are short of frogs generally, so this could be the best option sweetpea. |
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Post by grindle on Jul 11, 2015 4:00:57 GMT
I left mine but now the tadpoles have gone I can attack the duckweed
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Post by daitheplant on Jul 11, 2015 20:42:42 GMT
My 'Wildlife' pond is covered in duckweedand when trying to fish it out using my homemade 'net' I take out a load of tadpoles. looks like I will have to wait until they turn into frogs and leave the pond before I can safely get rid of the duckweed. Unless anyone got any better ideas. Get a duck.  |
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Post by SueA on Jul 11, 2015 21:28:53 GMT
I'd leave it sweetpea unless you pick the tadpoles out carefully & put them back, the duckweed is probably protecting them from predators such as birds though. |
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Post by grindle on Jul 12, 2015 6:55:23 GMT
Duckweed has been really bad this year, I'm just starting to attack mine now
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Post by sweetpea on Aug 19, 2015 13:37:58 GMT
qick update.
Still plenty tadpoles in pond but also loads of little froglets all over the place. Yesterday I was cutting the grass and had to constantly move little frogs out of the way and today having to watch where I walk as the whole area is alive with the wee beasties.
There is a row of them sitting on the base of the sliding door of the g'house. Wonder what the attraction there is.
I've been picking up handfuls of them and moving them to 'safer' areas of the garden.
Wonder how many will survive until next season.
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Post by SueA on Aug 19, 2015 18:57:48 GMT
I'm sure some of them will make it sweetpea & you'll have a fair number of frogs next year. A couple of frogs were watching me again today, one of them was a whopper & eating a small snail, it was so fat I thought it might be a female full of eggs but it's a bit late for that so it's probably just been feasting on all the slugs & snails in the garden as well as the worms I've been digging up.  |
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