They nested early last year and I didn't get to cut mine. Bad gardenerTalking of which I just read my notes for February and they say "watch out for birds nesting February to September"so I'll take it easy with the hedge trimming.
. Must do mine asap but the weather is shite on the hill.
I patched ours up like 5 times, then got a facebook message from someone I had no idea existed telling me the dog was by the front door! It was, I am still not sure who they are, why they know my name or where the hell they live lol. Is a small village tho and I walk him most days being rather loud about name of said dog. Who is a rather unusual mix based on the 400 times someone asked me that, I explained and then noticed absolutely nothing about them, their dog and certainly not their names.My dead hedge is doing well the dog hasn't escaped for several days () after I blocked up the last hole he was burrowing through. I've added some branches from the triffid today to bulk it out a bit.
Hum, it's going to have to get trimmed as it's a little too wild for this garden. And I'm not sure it's an idea place for birds to nest, but it's small enough for me to check before I cut it. I think I'm supposed to wait until the chance of frost is over.
Apologies as I don't think I explained myself very well
Too late, I've just had a first hack at it. But it dawned on me what you meant as I was cutting it back
. It has been neglected and is going to need quite a lot of work to make it nice again. I know it's a bit early to cut it, but I'm down south, it's very sheltered and if it dies I'll put in something I like better.
Humane one?
Yes indeed. They don’t sell hideous gin traps now. The term humane has always seemed like an excuse for often gross behaviour though.
As someone who went out with my dog and lifted all the mole traps from a local public gardens , I can . I like to live in harmony with all critters. No slug pellets, traps or any other killing method.
I get them climbing my pebbledash ( see my avatar pic) My nuts bring all the squirrels to the yard.
No slug pellets but I will kill them, have an air rifle for the rats but apart from that - agreed.
Least of my worries tbh. Starlings were shitting in my kitchen before I closed the windows for winter, and I still sometimes find a chicken in here if I've left the door ajar and turned my back for a second. I ran through a list of all the main diseases they're known to carry and couldn't find any that aren't killed by boiling, so I've been making soup from all the packets of lentils they'd chewed open in the farm shop but mostly not touchedyou politely didn't mention that they piss everywhere and carry diseases
I fucking hate rats. We are by farmland so unavoidable but next door have a concrete dog house thats got a nest under it. They chewed my fucking concrete so badly the council had to rip up and repour the pad. This is why everything I grow is covered. I don't trust them not to piss and shit in it and I'm not eating that. We bought a zapper trap, I don't like it but we had one come in the house. Nope. Hasn't caught a single one tho. Looking into growing stuff they hate by borders at the moment. Also noting I have some cement going spare.
Its like 4 miles square fields behind us. Caused an issue since apparently it all drains into our garden.... I've dug a 80ft trench and built a wall now. Council refused to so anything despite it flooding my shed and nearly coming in the back door til I ripped a fence down 4ft deep.in water.
It's still very early for a lot of stuff. Have you had a play about with this calendar for veg yet? (Go to the menu at the top of the page to adjust frost dates for your area first)
