Author Topic: not helping in the garden  (Read 4394 times)

ellied

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not helping in the garden
« 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..


And there are peas netted over for protection from birds..

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

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doganjo

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Re: not helping in the garden
« Reply #1 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
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ellied

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Re: not helping in the garden
« Reply #2 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 ::)





« Last Edit: April 13, 2011, 12:59:03 pm by ellied »
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Fleecewife

  • Joined May 2010
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Re: not helping in the garden
« Reply #3 on: April 13, 2011, 12:59:24 pm »
Beautiful cats  :cat: :cat: :)
"Let's not talk about what we can do, but do what we can"

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Re: not helping in the garden
« Reply #4 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????

Womble

  • Joined Mar 2009
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Re: not helping in the garden
« Reply #5 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.....
"All fungi are edible. Some fungi are only edible once." -Terry Pratchett

smallholder in the city

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Re: not helping in the garden
« Reply #6 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

Sandy

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Re: not helping in the garden
« Reply #7 on: April 13, 2011, 07:46:48 pm »
Arhhhhhhhh, just love these photos of cheeky cats, keep um comming.

Hilarysmum

  • Joined Oct 2007
Re: not helping in the garden
« Reply #8 on: April 14, 2011, 09:23:03 am »
Wonderful cats.   :D :D :D  We have 7 and still have a plague of mice

 

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