Frogs on the allotment

Frogs- a gardeners delight

Frogs are a gardeners delight, they eat your slugs etc without eating your plants. On my allotment I have made two areas which I will allow to become overgrown. One area is a fenced off 2m squared area with blackberry brambles in, the other area has an old bath and a few logs in.I have a filled bath with water and grass is growing in one end and a couple of small floating pieces of wood for ease to get out. Around the bath is an area of grass, brambles, a few logs and other areas fo them to hide in. This area is fenced off and about 4m squared and roughly a meter away from the other area that is for the wildlife the live in. Both areas have been fenced so that they won't be mown or strimmed, this will be a total sanctuary for them. Just before the return of the beast from the east, we had a warm spell and the frogs got busy. I wasn't sure I had any frogs until a ball of frogs spawn appeared, the next day a second ball appeared. Unfortunately on the fourth day the minus temperatures returned and the snow and ice came back with vengeance. I went up to see the results after the snow stopped, the tops of the ball were turning white instead of clear and I'm sure they are dead. I have left them in place hoping that there is still some that have survived under the surface of the water. 

Before the freeze, hopefully some have survived.