We get so many peepers at my house! I love hearing them at night when they really get going. I always have a tray of veggie starts for winter going in late summer/early fall when most froggies are tucked away someplace damp, and one peeper always hides out in the tray eating fruit flies and such.
Last year we ended up making a free-range vivarium when it was time to plant the veggies. We even named the frog Gilly
He had a heat mat under the 'bouncy castle', a covered sleeping 'patio' under a bit of terra cotta pot tucked into a plant. We changed his hot tub water every day, and he would have a soak each night. It got so bad by winter that we had to hang some pretty fairy lights and buy grubs for him to eat once the fruit flies died off.
Eventually it was too cold for too long and he took himself off to the cool damp zone under the porch downspout.
I'm sure another Gilly will return this year
Here he is, snoozing next to the plant tray. Before we made his Gilly house he lived in the tray on top of our woodbox. As we planted out starts we put a potted plant there for cover, and later put a banana peel there to attract fruit flies. He would use the peel like a hunting blind.
