Look What I Found in my Garden

**Python** · 08-05-2007, 04:54 PM

Doing some gardening tonight and I found this cheeky chappie - a young Hedgehog

They're great for eating slugs and other garden pests so I hope he decides to stay in our garden.

We gave him some catfood and some goats milk (kitten milk) so hope he'll keep coming back or take up permanent residence.

**Trekhawk** · 08-05-2007, 05:08 PM

Aahh that is so cute!!! I hope he/she hangs around to be your garden helper.

**nancielle** · 08-05-2007, 05:08 PM

He looks like he's really getting into his feast!

**abvnx** · 08-05-2007, 05:17 PM

aww, cute!

thanks for posting it.

**mimitabby** · 08-05-2007, 05:30 PM

wow! I need one. We have slugs!

uh, Python, do people convince them to stay around or are they typically too independent?

**KnottedYet** · 08-05-2007, 06:35 PM

What a cutie!

**Trek420** · 08-05-2007, 07:00 PM

Awwww, s/he's so cute! And the photo, that's amazing. Macro lens? How'd you get so close?

**Lifesgreat** · 08-06-2007, 07:29 AM

Cuuuute!

**Python** · 08-06-2007, 08:09 AM

Mimitabby. If you feed them every evening they usually stay. We had a family of hedgehogs at our last house. They often used to come right up to the back door - Mum, Dad hedgehog and a couple of little ones. They can get quite tame. Now I know I've got hedgehogs I'll have to be very careful if I'm using the strimmer. I would be devastated if I caused injury or death to these lovely creatures.

Trek420. I got down flat on my belly with the zoom lens on full to take that pic. Hedgehog disappeared shortly after that but I bet he's back in almost the same place now. I shall avoid that part of the garden when I'm working in it so he has a bit of undergrowth to curl up in.

**mimitabby** · 08-06-2007, 08:40 AM

awesome!!!

i never knew! (and once upon a time, my Italian relatives were so hungry they used to EAT them!)

**Wahine** · 08-06-2007, 09:16 AM

He/she is sooooooooo cute I just wanna squeeze him.

Ummmmm. On the other hand, maybe not a good idea. He looks kinda prickly.

I love hedgehogs.

**smilingcat** · 08-06-2007, 09:30 AM

cute cute cute... Do you have someting like NWF backyard habitat certification (can't remember the exact name)? It's just a feather in your cap so to speak.

I desperately need one to deal with all the snails in my yard.

Thai chilli pepper plant --- gone, nada, see ya.
globe basil --- lasted a day then it was nubs, two days later no sign...
french string beans -- snails said thank you very much.
armanian cucumber --- what was that but still TASTY! they said.

Things that survivied, egg plant cause it was able to grow faster than snails could eat. Same with squash and zucchini.

Tomato plants -- we no like.

And I refuse to use any chemicals on my garden. Kitchen refuse gets composted, and we use carnivorous snails to deal with the regular snails, ladybugs for aphid control.

Smilingcat

**rocknrollgirl** · 08-06-2007, 10:09 AM

Now I want want too....hmm...I wonder what my kitty would think...

**Duck on Wheels** · 08-06-2007, 10:12 AM

We used to have hedgehogs, until some badgers settled in the neighbors' unkempt mass of raspberries. Now I think the badgers are gone too. Haven't seen them in ages. I wish the hedgehogs would come back, but have little hope.

**snapdragen** · 08-06-2007, 10:19 AM

Originally Posted by smilingcat

I desperately need one to deal with all the snails in my yard.

Not as cute as a hedgehog, but I used to use a copper barrier to protect my plants from snails.

I put little rings of the copper strip around the base of each pepper plant, and made sure none of the leaves touched the ground. Snails and slugs hate copper.

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