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 cute garden hedgehog - how to help hedgehogs in your garden

Sadly, the numbers of hedgehogs have dwindled over the years. This decline over almost a decade is mainly because of the fragmentation of their habitats and difficulty in finding food.

However, small steps on our part will surely make the life of these tiny creatures significantly easy. There are a number of things we can do to help these gardeners' friends - if you'd like to find out more about thing you can do to help your local hedgehogs, you're in the right place!

Helping hedgehogs in your garden

1) Food and water

The easiest thing we can do to help protect hedgehogs is to provide them with food and clean drinking water. These essential resources are scarce mainly in the autumn and early spring.


Spikes Hedgehog Food


Hedgehogs usually hibernate during the winter. Before hibernating they need to prepare their body reserves in order to last during the hibernation process. They need to feed well and to weigh at least 600 grams to ensure that they have sufficient fat stores to enter hibernation and last right through it.

2) Hedgehog habitat

Another way of helping hedgehogs is to provide a safe haven for them - a hedgehog house! With these safe retreats the hedgehogs can rest in these houses during the daytime and hibernate in safety.

Hedgehog Basket

When hedgehogs emerge in the spring after hibernation they loose a considerable amount of their body weight. They are at significant risk during this time especially if the spring is cold and wet and there is again a scarcity of natural food around. So yet again providing supplementary food becomes necessary during these times.

Alternatively, when tidying your garden for the winter, consider leaving a pile of leaves or logs in a quiet corner for a hedgehog to find and hibernate in. 

3) Create a hedgehog-safe environment 

We can also protect our hedgehogs by ensuring that our gardens that are hedgehog friendly. Making the garden hedgehog friendly could involve small and simple things, like covering the drains holes or even the swimming pools during the night time. You can also place bricks or wooden planks in the ponds to give the hedgehogs an easy way out as most love a dip in the cool water.

Hedgehogs feed on slugs, snails, insects and worms. Making piles of old wood will attract these insects and provide food to the hedgehogs. It is also crucial that you stop using slug pellets and other pesticides in your garden - encourage hedgehogs to provide that service for you instead!

Very importantly at this time of year, please remember to check any piles of garden waste for hedgehogs - you may wish to leave a pile there undisturbed over winter if it's already inhabited. Be very careful when digging your fork into the compost heap, and always move bonfire piles to a new location the day of burning it. Also, check thoroughly before strimming or mowing overgrown areas. 

If you use netting, twine or similar in your garden, be sure that it is raised off the ground enough so that hedgehogs can pass underneath without becoming entangled.

These small steps on our part will definitely go a long way in making sure that the hedgehogs are well protected during the harsh times!

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If you have any further questions or would like more advice on steps you can take to help protect hedgehogs, feel free to reach out and contact us today. One of our professional team members will be more than happy to answer any questions you may have, and help prepare you to do you bit to support and protect your local wildlife! 

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