Frogs on my veggie patch!

[thecarnage]

Hi,

Sorry for asking so many stupid questions recently.

I tried looking up on Google but thought I'd ask you guys too.

I saw a little frog on my veggie patch last night and I was like

I went to say hello but he hopped away. No harm done. I went to bed and but I couldn't sleep thinking that maybe he's a pest and going to eat all my goodies.

Are frogs a pest? He must have wandered off from a pond next door.

[emilymup]

He was probably looking for slugs and other equally delicious stuff!! We had a resident toad in the greenhouse last year and he never ate any of the veggies in there - just the bugs, snails etc!!

[thecarnage]

He was probably looking for slugs and other equally delicious stuff!! We had a resident toad in the greenhouse last year and he never ate any of the veggies in there - just the bugs, snails etc!!

Thanks very much! I hope he returns and eats more bugs!

Have a badger:

[emilymup]

Lurvve the badger!!

[selfraising]

I often get frogs in amonst my potatoes, hopefully they're having a feast of slugs and snails!

[Florence Fennel]

Wish I'd got one. Next door have put in a little pond and will be adding some fish. Hope they get frogs as well, they can come over to my place for a good feed.

[Bren In Pots]

We've got frogs in our pond but they are outnumbered by the slugs and snails.

[Flummery]

I've had several frogs in my strawberry cage this year - and the cleanest strawbs I've ever had! You do well to encourage all slug munchers (except chickens who munch everything else too - inlcuding the frogs if you let them!)

[snohare]

I actually did some "frog-napping" at our allotment site, it being new and isolated by walls, and the number of slugs has gone down appreciably since they started to pop up all over the place. Frogs and toads are a wonderful organic gardener's solution to slugs - until you start strimming the grass, anyway...
The limiting factor in how many of these pests they can eat is shelter from predation and heat/cold/dry, and having somewhere to breed - that's one of the reasons you should leave some areas of long grass/debris, and have a pond. Toads in particular like buried old drainpipes, and will eat slugs all night.

[butter fingers]

im lucky then, ive a frog living by the raised beds outside my flat and frogs at my allotment plot.so this year i have noticed a lot less snails and slugs around.although i know there are plenty lurking out there just waiting!

[Madasafish]

We have a pond full of tadpoles and the frogs hide in my compost heaps and under my empty seed trays, under stones .. and when the strawberries are over and it rains... in the strawberry bed - which will be overgrown and full of beetles which frogs love.

[Topcat36]

I have one maybe more not sure both sides of me have large ponds, i find him hopping around my garden most nights. need more tho for the amount of slugs i have.