Great Garden Excitement … We Have Frogspawn!! 🐸

well good morning to you all it's Janette here enthusiastic Gardener it's a beautiful day we have been so lucky we have had a couple of weeks now of gorgeous gorgeous sunshiny weather it's around 15° centigrade and I've mentioned before but if you want to know how to convert to Fahrenheit because I do realize lots of you in other countries use Fahrenheit we always have Centigrade over here but you do you take the centigrade and say it's 15 so you double it so then it's 30 and then you add on a 29 so 59° fah that's a a rough way to work it out such exciting things to share with you I am just like could hardly sleep last night could hardly sleep but before that my first daffodils have opened these I believe are the Alton because as I said last week or the week before what I did was I had some farmer graay SE daffodils about 3 years ago I think it was and I had 10 different varieties and 10 of each so I put them in little groups and then last year hello lty lotty's come out for a little bit of spring weather well it's not spring yet two more weeks just two weeks to go but it feels like spring so I had um had them all in little groups with their own variety and then what I did was I dug them all up last year that's another one and I just put them in a bucket and I've planted them all romly so it's going to be very exciting to see what pop pops up where you can see some are behind the others so there's sort of like early spring Bloomers mid and late so I think that will be very exciting but these I do remember are the carltons and they were always the first so I've done a bit of uh moving around as surprise surprise last Monday afternoon after I posted last week's video so this is the ACA P my blood good this was the one that was in Woodland Courtyard in a container and I thought well it's been in there a while it it probably needs to come out in the lands ape so that is now there and then if we pan around to the pond you can see that the Alex konata was there oops hello lty the ey canata was over there and I was saying I'm going to move that that has now been moved there it is that's the IL canata which Japanese Holly I don't know if it'll be happier there then there were the two these were over in Woodland Courtyard in my small container and last week I don't know why I called them thja thya and uh one of my friends commented that's actually a Taxas taxes and she's absolutely right and I I knew that so I don't know why I said it taxes Barta and that comes from the U family so I've moved go I think I think that's all I moved oh yes one more thing Woodland Courtyard had this fattier spiders web in the big purple container so I've put this here because spiders webs or fers they can take the shade so that's now there and that's what the gard's looking at at the moment and so here we are at the wildlife Pond which I created last spring so it's been here well I think it was about June if I remember correctly um and we built a hibernaculum for the frogs and we have little frog shelters we've got everything it's five star five star accommodation we've got little ladders little Bridges um logs they can crawl in I can't believe the generosity and kindness of my very lovely friend Pauline Pauline krispen she has very kindly said you can have some of my frog FR born and I should get the frogs born today I'm hoping um all being well so we need to clean the pond because over the winter we've had a lot of uh leaves and debris has fallen in right I'm just going to get into it take this out you can see all the leaves on the top so get rid of all those oh this all tangled together tidy that out that was a lovely I can't remember what it's called now but it's all growing again I remember this was called a fiber optic plant as you can see I think what I need to do is cut it all off so I'll chop that right off and then hopefully it will grow again and then we have a water lily which is falling on its side but there's Signs of Life there growing again oh yeah I can feel loads look at all that leaves so that's basically when I am churning things up a bit but I'm just getting all the leaves it's very cold look at all that Lo to believe goodness and that's not good to keep all these leaves in there there lo look at it all do realize I've got a solution actually to add to this Pond which I'll show you in a moment it should help put it all back into its natural um what's the words I'm looking for biological goodness I'll show you that in a moment still some more show you just how many leaves I have found you'll be amazed because I'm amazed are you amazed lty what's mommy doing you don't want to get in here lty it's very cold I think that's just about it really the little ponds now so there are things in [Music] there you can go back there is life in here oh there's a few actually quite a few I've Disturbed to them all we put the water L [Music] back there's a shelf here so that can go there you're probably supposed to repot these things I suppose that can go [Music] there but I'm just going to put this in a pony towel like that I'm going to chop it all off look at the roots might cut the roots as well that's what I've just chopped off I don't know if you're supposed to do that but I've done it and just in case there's any little snils or something in [Music] there well hopefully they got out [Music] take this away for the moment I'll just lay that there so if there is anything they can crawl back in I leave it there overnight perhaps well that's it down here [Music] there you go right trying to wedge them in with some rocks so they don't move around I think they're quite wedged and then of course we have this this is the little Bridge which uh when the buckets moved out the way I can put that back and then I can put the little Hiway back well it's a lot cleaner than was and I'm going to put the solar Fountain back in but I went today to my garden center which has a whole um indoor aquarium plant selection it has um outdoor pond plants there was not one single pond plant yet so it's a little bit early I wanted to get Pond weed and everything but they don't have any of that but it should be within the next couple of weeks but I did find this so I thought I'll try this and it is uh for pure healthy water and waste removables it says it provides the perfect combination to improve water Clarity and quality in all types of natural Wildlife ponds that have no conventional filtration so what you do is you add one of the pure healthy water balls and one pure waste remover bow put them into together for every 100 lers of pond water and you do that per week directly into the pond reduces the frequency of cleaning converts ammonia and that removes sludge debris reducing bad smells and as I said ideal for ponds with no filtration so I thought I'd get one of those it was only about I think it was $7.99 so I thought that's well worth it let's put that in there yay we have a life in the pond again it's nice to have a pond sounds again it's been rather quiet out here that's what they look like so we just put those in oh they are let's see if they do their thing it's lovely to see a little bit of life and we've got little snails and goodness knows what else and it's glistening in the sunshine so we'll have to see when the frogs born arrives which I'm thinking is to today and then we can add that and that is just going to be amazing fun the other thing I've decided to do is I think I'm going to take this out it's uh supposed to be an extra little Pond but all it is is a a water bowl for Lotte and then I was thinking if I do have frogs spawn I don't want to attract we have Birds but I don't mind little tiny sweet Robbins and things but we have huge big violent mag pies and uh big pigeons and I don't want them to have any reason to come near so I think I'm going to take this out put it back on the bird bath stand and we'll put bird bath over there where it was originally so there's still water for birds and I want to make this as inaccessible an area for birds as possible so I might move this CarX over to its space okay so the bird bath is back where it was in the first place that seems to be the story of this Garden is you move things four times and then you put them back where they were in the first place and then over here we have the I've just moved caraxes to cover up where the bird bath top was and that hopefully will deter any big bully Birds I'm going to call them the bully Birds well it's arrived look at this let's have a closeup this is a frog Spa which my friend has given to me and it looks really good because nothing has dyed apparently you can tell if it's dyed they turn white so I'm so excited so excited what we're going to do it's now about half more so obviously we don't have an aot of light left but I'm just going to put this on the ledge in the water just so it can get climatized to the temperature I don't want it to fall in actually let's put it over here take this out put it there I'm just going to leave it like that for an hour then hopefully we have a little bit of light left and we can release it from its jar Richard such a comedian he said Janette you shouldn't put your eggs all in one basket it huh you should divide the Frog spawn up into both ponds I think he's right the reason I didn't want to put it in this one this one I see quite often big birds like magpies pigeons Etc do come and land on here and they do have a drink so I was just a bit worried so I'll put some in here some in the other one I want to say now thank you so so much to Pauline Pauline Crispen she said to me she couldn't bear the thought of me spending £30 on frogs Bor when she has some herself so she's so kindly shared shared her precious cargo with me thank you so much paie apparently frogs lay their eggs on little shelves so they should be fairly near the surface according to my research so maybe um maybe I put them I don't know I've never done this before maybe maybe I'll put them in there look at this I've never done this before so I kind of need to oh is the right spot I think so let's put half of them in oh well that was good half of gone in there and you can tell the difference apparently between frog spawn and Toad spawn frog spawn does a big ball like this all joined together and toads is like a String of Pearls so it's definitely frogs so let's put the this half in the other Pond where though don't actually have Ledges on this pond so I might build up just put the fall down or I'll knock it over oh my God could you imagine um Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps wonder if I could put it on there just put it on there yeah just put it on there here we go oh lovely oh there one left amazing I think you can see and then this is this bit I think you can see that hopefully you can see it's raining and I'm going to cover up the pond with the net there's the eggs hope you can see and then this one I will come out again in the morning and hopefully nothing has been Disturbed I've tried my best and I'm so excited will I be able to sleep tonight it's now Saturday Saturday morning another gorgeous sunny day and I'm delighted to tell you that everything's still in Place nothing's been moved because I have had foxes in the middle of the night and they've pulled things out the pond they've pulled that bridge out before now they've pulled the solar Fountain and dragged it to the middle of the lawn but I think that was probably during their mating times and they get a little a little uh crazy and and they seem to have calmed down a bit so nothing has changed the sun's not on it yet so we can't really see but I can see that they are still down there which is wonderful and then over here nothing's been Disturbed over here I did have a bird feeder one time hanging off there and we caught on the um CCTV because when I came out in the morning and everything was all over the place all the plants were were were just laying down in the water and everything so I knew that they'd been trying to get the bird food so I had to move that so very quickly the lifespan from laying of an egg to becoming excuse me a little froglet is 14 weeks and I think it takes about three weeks for them to hatch and when they do that they start eating the jelly of their egg then they'll start eating algae in the pond and different things like that when they're Tad Poes and you can feed them boiled lettuce and there's other things like bits of cucumber I need to research all that when they develop their back legs which come first they turn carnivorous they want meat they want meat you can buy uh the little blood blood worms I think the little squirly worms and my fish Center has them Frozen things like that frozen so I'll look into that some sites suggest that you dangle believe it or not a piece of liver livered into the pond and they all attack the liver I don't know that I'll be doing that I'm sure and apologies if for all you vegetarians and vegans watching know it's very unpleasant but uh when they 14 weeks there'll be little froglets and then they'll start leaving the pond and then they'll start wandering around yes wandering around you have to be nice to the froglets she's ever so ever so gentle she would never never do anything to the froglets um then they can go and find all the Slugs and snils that they desire so I hope you've enjoyed this video I've had so much fun thank you again Pauline for your generosity in sharing your lovely frogs Bor with me I would do my best I will watch watch it all like a hawk like a a a proud mother and I'll keep you updated next week I have some one more thing in this Garden which is very exciting to show you and then the week after so two weeks time we will be going over to Tina's Garden and we've been designing her garden we've taken a break because she had um family business to attend to my voice is going need a cup of coffee but we will be going over there and you will see all her design from start to finish a brand new Garden um revamp and redesign which I'm excited to show you so lots to come thanks so much for watching I'm Janette I'm the enthusiastic Gardener have a wonderful wonderful week bye