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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: ellied on April 13, 2011, 12:47:31 pm

Title: not helping in the garden
Post by: ellied on April 13, 2011, 12:47:31 pm

I do my best to help veg seedlings - I fleece them over to protect from frosts and being dug up for cat litter but it doesn't seem to work..
(http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a388/EllieDouglas/spring%202011/IMG00718-20110413-1204-1.jpg)

And there are peas netted over for protection from birds..(http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a388/EllieDouglas/spring%202011/IMG00719-20110413-1204-1.jpg)

Would I be better staying indoors and let the seedlings fend for themselves?

Title: Re: not helping in the garden
Post by: doganjo on April 13, 2011, 12:50:09 pm

He he, love it!  Just go and have a cup of coffee and forget about the seedlings and the puddy tat  ;D

Title: Re: not helping in the garden
Post by: ellied on April 13, 2011, 12:55:49 pm

Yes that works - for a while anyway ;)  My netwrap heap is apparently nicer than the sofa indoors ::)
(http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a388/EllieDouglas/spring%202011/IMG00672-20110328-1742-1.jpg)

Title: Re: not helping in the garden
Post by: Fleecewife on April 13, 2011, 12:59:24 pm

Beautiful cats  :cat: :cat: :)

Title: Re: not helping in the garden
Post by: Sandy on April 13, 2011, 01:08:09 pm

Just love the look on the cats faces, "WHAT?"

I smiled when I visited a daughter who had netted off her veg only for one of her chickens to have found a way in and layed her eggs and ate the veg there!!!!! Sometimes????

Title: Re: not helping in the garden
Post by: Womble on April 13, 2011, 06:09:23 pm

You have my sympathy!

I got all excited this morning when I thought we had another broody hen in one of the nestboxes, but no.....

Title: Re: not helping in the garden
Post by: smallholder in the city on April 13, 2011, 06:17:24 pm

Lovely cats.
I've found that a liberal application of liquid seaweed feed keeps the neighbourhood cats of South London and my cat Salem off the veg patch. I think it's the smell because you often see them wander over all ready to wreak havoc with the veg plants, have a sniff then walk away in disgust. You do need to keep applying it though

Title: Re: not helping in the garden
Post by: Sandy on April 13, 2011, 07:46:48 pm

Arhhhhhhhh, just love these photos of cheeky cats, keep um comming.

Title: Re: not helping in the garden
Post by: Hilarysmum on April 14, 2011, 09:23:03 am

Wonderful cats.   :D :D :D  We have 7 and still have a plague of mice