Make a simple slow worm habitat

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Although endangered nationally, slow worms are still fairly common in Stroud and they deserve our help.  They eat slugs and snails, after all!

You can help them by making a simple home for them in your garden.  All you need is a bit of corrugated roofing sheet (black bitumen sheet, trade name ‘Onduline’, or galvanised corrugated iron sheet).  Put it in a sunny spot, and put a brick or two on it to hold it down. Couldn’t be simpler, and with luck a family of slow worms will soon move in.  They love the heat and safety under the corrugated roofing sheet.

Slow Worm Habitat Stroud
Just put a piece of corrugated roofing sheet (black or galvanised, not clear) in a sunny spot and slow worms will live underneath it – coming out to forage for slugs and snails.
A day after I put the roofing sheet in place, I lifted it up and found a lovely big slow worm (and a slug which would soon be a tasty snack for it).
A few days after I put the roofing sheet in place, I lifted it up and found a lovely big slow worm living there, just as I expected since I often see them in my garden.

I have some offcuts of black roofing sheet available for £4 each (a complete two-metre long sheet is £16 in B&Q Stroud or Wickes Gloucester).

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