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Partridges eating cropes
buttercup45
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Help needed please.
Does anyone have any ideas for keeping Partridges off my veg plot.Building wire/net cloches over every thing would be be too costly ..I have cloches of net over the peas but they will need removing any day now to stack the peas. Any suggestions please.
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I find that partridges are usually pretty timid - seaside windmills, 'bow tie shapes' of kitchen foil suspended by string from a bamboo cane and blowing in the wind are keeping wood pigeons off my cabbages so should work for partridges too.
Good luck - lovely to have partridges about - are they the French Red legged or the UK native Greys? The Greys are rare now.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Aren't partridges supposed to be exceedingly good to eat ?
They are very tasty indeed Katherine
but they're not in season until 1st September - taking them out of season can result in a fine of up to £5,000 and a jail sentence - even if they are fattening themselves up on our veggies! 
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I see why the birds would be so smug about raiding veggies... they know the law is on their side! Clever bu**ers!
I had considerable success with hanging cds around the strawberries in the last couple of years. Very shiny cds (shiny on both sides, no printed side) hanging from thin fishing tread attached to a sort of crooked questio-mark shaped support of thick wire. You can attach the wire question mark to a tallish cane for more height. The cds turn and shake with the smallest breeze and flash out in different colours, very brightly. Now I actually get to eat strawberries (it does not scare the slugs however). I hang about 3 cd on a 1sq m patch of strawberies. Will try that also on cherry trees next year.