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Gardens - grass - crows!!!

Ian M said:
Crows! Yes they can create a right mess of a lawn. On the bright side they are actually doing you a favour. They are going after beetle laver that eat the roots of your grass.
A walk round with a rake some lawn dressing and your lawn will be fine.

If you want a messed up lawn what you need are moles and or voles.
A mole is not that bad. The build a deep tunnel network in their territory. The piles of earth are good deep soil, 'normally' weed free. sweep them out over the lawn. Once the Mole has finished the hills will stop turning up in the lawn. Moles do not eat roots, bulbs or carrots! They eat worms and slugs and other pests. So they are actually good to have in the garden.
Voles on the other hand. They tunnel right up in the top of the soil, they do not make hills but your lawn can become a criss-cross of small canals just below the surface waiting for you to step on one and turn your ankle. (ask me how I know). Voles LOve roots, bulbs, vegetables, generally a far bigger pain in the butt. one thing they hate is a bulb; Fritillaria imperialis, the crown imperial, imperial fritillary or Kaiser's crown, they stink of fox piddle so they keep the burgers away from your prized plants.
Each year as the fields by the house get ploughed, our gardens become safe(er) havens for all the small bar stewards.
Crows. Best way to deal with those is to just keep going out in the garden and making loud noises. Hammer on a shovel is good. (neighbours dog goes a bit mental though lol)..
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Nothing wrong with a worm Ian, thats a bit mean ;)
 
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stillp said:
Even better, start the seed off in small pots or cells, then plant them out in the spring. Saves worrying about the birds eating the seed.
Pete
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Too large an area I'm afraid Pete. Plus - not enough pots nor room to put them all!!!! The garden is way bigger than the house her 'she shed'!!!
 
Try a fine garden netting or get a few rolls of chiken wire and roll it out with sticks to raise it off the grass... I did that with the (expletive) magpies ripping up the grass. Now I just open the door and the dogs do the rest.
 
Never had trouble with Crows. Seen 4 stop and take a break in the wood line today by my Wheat Field then they moved on.
 
the wife feeds them, and they leave the grass alone, very cleaver birds I'm told, but they eat her cooking so not that smart :tears-of-joy:
 
Tim Marlow said:
Dont know Dave, but it’s one of the few threads that has actually stayed on topic :tongue-out3:
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Tim, much the same as my observations of late.

I'm all for banter, chatting and gentle leg pulling (As it was on here in the early days) but recently the straying off topic becomes just plain daft......

.......and it seems to be getting worse by the day.
 
spanner570 said:
Tim, much the same as my observations of late.

.......and it seems to be getting worse by the day.
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Do I detect more than a measure of censure here; if there's no room for a little diversion in conversation and banter with perhaps, a little space for controversy, are we not in danger of becoming (in current idiom) very 'woke'? Let's live and let live people.
Steve
 
Airborne01 said:
Do I detect more than a measure of censure here; if there's no room for a little diversion in conversation and banter with perhaps, a little space for controversy, are we not in danger of becoming (in current idiom) very 'woke'? Let's live and let live people.
Steve
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Define 'little diversion'. There are a ton of threads here that go way off topic then the teddy goes out of the cot when the mods/admin step in to dare to put it back on topic, 'Spots on the Internet' as a prime example.

Anyway. Back to crows and pest cats
 
Ave et Atque
AlanG said:
Define 'little diversion'. There are a ton of threads here that go way off topic then the teddy goes out of the cot when the mods/admin step in to dare to put it back on topic, 'Spots on the Internet' as a prime example.

Anyway. Back to crows and pest cats
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Ave at atque my friends - speak soon.
 
Airborne01 said:
Do I detect more than a measure of censure here; if there's no room for a little diversion in conversation and banter with perhaps, a little space for controversy, are we not in danger of becoming (in current idiom) very 'woke'? Let's live and let live people.
Steve
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Now there I fully agree... If you were at a club meeting there would be plenty of banter going around and when the time came the serious talk regarding modelling would take place... And so it should be on here, after all when a new member introduces themselve they are informed about what a great forum this is and included in that diet is banter, so welcome and enjoy your time with us.
I too am tired of all this wokeness, little hitlers and their followers demanding that the majority should bow down and do what they want and they have the neck and cheek to call it democracy - 'democracy' that is being rammed down our throats every Saturday in London and other towns. So if anyone objects to a bit of banter, drifting off topic but returning later, then it is their democratic right not to read the posts or join in. So stop being grumps and act your age, we will not be around for very much longer.... Enjoy the hobby and enjoy the banter....
 
Waspie said:
And in English for us Anglo-Saxons!!! :upside: (with a mix of part Jock thrown in!!)
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Bit like our unofficial regimental latin - Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Asbestos (Frank you Jack I'm Fireproof)
And with that I will now take part in the weekly chit chat with the girls/ladies at the Sainburys checkout....
 
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