Creating A Wildlife Pond On Our Allotment To Battle Slugs.
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- Опубликовано: 15 окт 2024
- A wildlife pond really can bring a vast amount of extra wildlife into your growing space. from frogs, toads, newts and dragonfly's. Many love a juicy slug. With the wetter weather slugs and snails are decimating crops. Time to take the gloves off, I'm battling slugs with nature.
Many thanks for sharing your pond construction.
I love it ❤
Great idea, looks like you did a good job.
We have huge ponds next door and behind us but I am still going to use beer traps and cinnamon around plants 🤞🤞. Oh lord it took me 3 years to get rid of creeping Jenny. Have a great week Helen, Ali 🌧️🌧️🌧️🇨🇦
Yup creeping jenny is a giant 💩 🤣. But I'll see how I can cope with containing it. Beer traps are working for us. But the constant downpours just keep diluting it 🤣. I mean who enjoys light beer 😂. Have a good one Ali 👍
@@oddsocksgrowing I make covers with margarine containers just cut bits into the side and put a rock on top
That's really pretty. I am sure they will love it!
Hope so 🥰
Make sure you have a boarder around each bed that is kept dry & warm, perhaps woodchip or something similar. Slugs & snails love cold damp places and come out at night when it is colder, perhaps salt will stop them from crossing, otherwise inhumane beer traps. Or Nematode sprays . Good luck!
😊 As you can see from all my other vids I use woodchip paths between all my beds. ☺️. I'm surrounded by unkept allotments, and they come in from all directions. I use beer, too. Like I showed in a previous video. Salts not a great idea for the soil life. With it being such a bad year for slugs even the RHS is having a bad time with them this year. But I shall persevere 😊👍
What a fabulous pond!
Thanks. Hopefully it will grow in well.
Hey there, was seeking reassurance was doing ok with my wildlife pond at allotment. Thanks. Yes, it has been a major point to have added this. The entire site. Is home to newts slowworms lizards, I even have glow in the dark centipedes,! And my lonely male frog finally has a mate in my pond. So I am sure there’s a battle between the newts and the frogs, toads but at least I have given them a fair battle field :-) may creative force of new life begin!
That sounds a wonderful area 😍. Your very lucky. Keep doing what you are doing ❤️
Looks amazing! 🤩
Thank you 😊. Hopefully it works
It looks great & didn't cost too much xx
Nope. Didn't want to spend alot at all. Defeats the allotment spirt. ☺️
SLUGS!!!! 🐌
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Will introduce insects, but slugs may creep into your greenhouse underground as they only come out at night.
They get in there easily enough already 😂. It's just a bad year for them
Great video, given me some idea how to make one. Shouldn't you have used rainwater though, chemicals in tap water. It's not clear on the video where your water is from.
It was filled with tap to check for leaks. Then emptied. Then filled up again with tap water. The chemicals in tap water dissipate quickly. Also because i didn't add any fish etc. it would be ok. By the time wildlife come in its safe. Its stays topped up with all the rain we had.
So many sparrows!!! Ask them to help
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They are already helping by eating the lettuces.... 😩
Don't think I would have put a damp area (Pond) so close to where I'm growing. Predators for slugs will find them anyway , maybe?
Slugs and snails will happen and does happen with a pond or no pond there. Its a good area to have, its leveller than the rest of the plot. 👍