Toad Pond Garden

Common toads usually migrate to ancestral breeding ponds in spring and are associated with larger ponds fish ponds reservoirs and farmland ponds but are known to breed in some garden ponds.

Toad pond garden.

Pond creatures are great at finding ponds themselves. Making your garden more toad friendly is all you need to do when looking at how to attract toads. They will eat both the eggs and the tadpoles. A toad was here all summer and at night would take the same path over to the large pond and bigger garden and hang out with the other toads.

Toads lay their eggs in long chains which they wrap around submerged vegetation. At its simplest a toad house is a shelter where toads may lounge protected from the sun and potential predators. You might find strings of toad spawn in your garden pond. Left to fend for themselves toads will seek out fallen branches leaf piles or other spots.

Toads are fabulous garden buddies and a great creature to adopt as a garden pet don t constrain them just learn where they live and keep their environment safe. A small pond or ditch that stays filled with water for at least a significant part of the year will not only help with attracting toads but will help ensure future generations of toads. This is a young toad who likes it in the creeping veronica toads despite old wives tales are completely harmless and do not cause warts. Don t move it or take any from other ponds these amphibians choose their breeding ponds with care.

One simple fact should convince you that you need these creatures in your garden. Toads consume up to 3 000 insects per month. Encouraging toads to the garden is all about providing them with safe comfortable digs. Toads tend to like larger ponds but there is every chance a frog or newt will find your mini pond especially if you provide corridors of cover next to a pond and add a frog and toad abode nearby.

Attracting and encouraging toads and frogs to live in your garden keeps the pest population down and reduces the need for pesticides or other natural insect deterrents. It s time to add a toad house to the garden. Don t introduce fish to your pond. Their diet includes beetles flies mosquitoes cockroaches caterpillars cutworms moths.