My organic fruit comes complete with organic maggots too and all my hostas and French marigolds have been eaten to the point of being almost leafless but I don't think I will win this war if I don't stop feeding the birds and the hedgehogs. However, I do know that day will never come!
Difficult to know how far to take this respect for life thing. Do we stop treating children for head lice? After all the lice are living creatures and surely they deserve the chance to exist? Or what about the parasite which causes so much blindness in Sub-Saharan children? Let it live? What about the bacteria which causes septicaemia? Or the fly which lays its eggs on people's skin and its maggot which grows there?
Since much of the food we eat is produced at the expense of billions of living things, do we stop eating commercially produced vegetables and fruit?
You can take anything to ridiculous lengths if you so desire.
As for a 'clique' on here. If there was one then the members would only respond to postings by other members since that is what happens in cliques. Looking back over the last few months of postings there are very very few which have no replies which again is what would happen if there was an exclusive clique.
I for one am very pleased that there are people who are willing to give up their time to help others. If that is a small group then that is because there are people who may have the knowledge and expertise, but do not have the desire or ability or time to share it. Be grateful for the ones who do.
Sorry, but I feel no mercy towards Vine weevils and root aphids. They have between them destroyed my Auricula collection.
actualy apologise to every snail I stamp on to dispatch quickly. Ants, I am allergic to their bite/sting, you should see me frantically climbing around the conservatory roof which is Lantern and blooming high, (depinitely not befitting a woman of my tender years) to rescue a bee,dragon fly,moth butterfly from the clutches of the false widows,who live in the teeniest gaps up there.
Its that time of year again, the inherited apple tree has Brown rot and is passed help!
the high hedge is so out of control it will take a chain saw! the fir tree is dead and needs to go as well,SO to get the jobs ok for me to do in the future im getting (or Not) a tree surgeon, first one came he saw he priced he agreed it and did a vanishing act didn't turn up at all, second man and team came saw agreed and used these excuses," on our way, just cleaning up on this job, just finishing this silver birch, be about 20 minutes, from 11am were on our way they arrived at 4.30pm,after a quick chat they disappeared as well,(just as well) third day of trying the next chap has agreed and will come back asap!
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Its that time of year again, the inherited apple tree has Brown rot and is passed help!
the high hedge is so out of control it will take a chain saw! the fir tree is dead and needs to go as well,SO to get the jobs ok for me to do in the future im getting (or Not) a tree surgeon, first one came he saw he priced he agreed it and did a vanishing act didn't turn up at all, second man and team came saw agreed and used these excuses," on our way, just cleaning up on this job, just finishing this silver birch, be about 20 minutes, from 11am were on our way they arrived at 4.30pm,after a quick chat they disappeared as well,(just as well) third day of trying the next chap has agreed and will come back asap!
its that time of year again folks, roll on summer