This is my first year of proper gardening, having reclaimed my garden from my son who has outgrown it and I have made a pond, planted lots of new plants and also tried my hand at veg. I have grown runner beans, tomatoes, strawberries and red cabbage, herbs and lots of packets of annual seeds have filled my garden with flowers and colour and given me much pleasure. I have lost all but the first two of my strawberries to an unidentified nocturnal thief and the cabbages and nasturtiums have been gobbled by the Cabbage White caterpillars!! But I don't mind, it's a small price to pay for the mix of wildlife I get in the garden. Birds, squirrels and butterflies, some new goldfish and a resident frog, to name a few. There is still plenty of runners and tomatoes for us and the garden looks beautiful! Live and let live, I say! Next year, though, I'll plant many more for sharing!!
I put out a few currants for my blackbirds each morning and evening.They love these and although I do not grow blackberries they have not touched my strawberries. I find that the blackbirds are watching and waiting for their feed and as soon as I go in the garden they appear from nowhere and start chirping away saying 'thank you' for the currants. Am I mad or what!!!
My strawberries went untouched,as did my blackberries. Pigeons had every gooseberry ,but unlike last year when they were only taken when they were ripe,this year the went as soon as they formed.
my names derek and have been gardening for only afew years.one problem bugs me every year guarding my cherries.this year i bought a scarer.and the chap next door thought ide started breeding parrots. oh well i do get a few
Adam, I think you're too fond of the wild birds to keep them away! Couldn't you try micromesh? They couldn't get tangled in it, and you could leave some fruit on the bird table. Let us know what happens next year.
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Pigeons had every gooseberry ,but unlike last year when they were only taken when they were ripe,this year the went as soon as they formed.
only afew years.one problem bugs me every
year guarding my cherries.this year i bought a scarer.and the chap next door
thought ide started breeding parrots.
oh well i do get a few