Toad Pond Garden

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.

Toad pond garden.

Left to fend for themselves toads will seek out fallen branches leaf piles or other spots. Having a toad in the garden is a natural blessing to a gardener. Don t move it or take any from other ponds these amphibians choose their breeding ponds with care. Encouraging toads to the garden is all about providing them with safe comfortable digs.

Making your garden more toad friendly is all you need to do when looking at how to attract toads. Don t introduce fish to your pond. 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. Rinse the containers out at least once week and fill with fresh water.

They will eat both the eggs and the tadpoles. Toads consume up to 3 000 insects per month. 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. 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.

Tanya at lovely greens built a small wildlife pond to attract frogs to her garden. It s time to add a toad house to the 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. At its simplest a toad house is a shelter where toads may lounge protected from the sun and potential predators.

Pond creatures are great at finding ponds themselves. One simple fact should convince you that you need these creatures in your garden. You might find strings of toad spawn in your garden pond. Toads lay their eggs in long chains which they wrap around submerged vegetation.