What's Going on in the Garden

I finally got round to restocking the ponds with plants today - it had been three months and the water went all green again! So the plants will hopefully clear some of that up. With the rain we've had the green has been much diluted!

Lots of tadpoles in the ponds, they were very late, but I had some in both ponds, which I've never had before!

The wormeries are doing so-so. It's possible I'm not feeding them enough. At least one of them had lots of young skinny worms in it! They were on the lid, I didn't notice with the other one. What else is cute is that I feed my dogs on a raw meaty bones diet, and so they tend to poop out small bits of bone. There are lots of very clean bits of bone in the wormeries!

The apple tree has lots of blosson on it, but the greenguage tree, not a petal so far.

Tadpole Killer

Sadly one of the ponds is completely turning into something really nasty, and nothing appears to have survived. This is a shame, as it's the one that the frogs don't spawn in, and every year, I put some spawn/tadpoles into it from the other pond. They never seem to live.

The water has gone completely green! Everything was dead in there - no tadpoles at all. So am in the process of emptying it.


To show how green it is, here it is in a white container, against the grass. Please excuse very nosy terriers who wouldn't get out of the way (and tasted it - yuk!).


The other pond isn't doing too badly. Admittedly it's brown, but I'm not sure what to do about that - I think it's the soil at the bottom. Once the tadpoles have moved on I will investigate.


Also a short while ago I planted a couple of fruit trees for the wildlife.
Pear

and Apple.