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Posted by CJM (U2105209) on Wednesday, 15th June 2011
I have twice sown runner and french climbing beans, and twice the sparrows have had them. A combination of dust bathing and pecking away at them, and out of 10 I have one sad lonely bean. Is it too late to try again?
No not really - it is just that you season may be shorter- my advise do it now- but sow two beans per station for insurance!!
Geoff
Thanks, I'll try again. This time I'll surround them with wooden spikes!
............. Better to try the old trick of a black bin bag tied to a cane. the bag should be upside down and just on corner tied to the can - it flaps in the breeze and makes a noise as well.
Or you could recycle your old CD's -or any free ones you get in the papers. Stick them together shiny side out and tie them to the top of a cane , push the cane into the ground at an angle and the CD's swing in the breeze, the flashes putting off the most determined 'vandal'!!!!!
If you going to use cds- make sure they are not by "TheByrds"or "The Housemartins"or " Lieutenant Pigeon"
I'll stop there......sorry.......
Geoff
I always tie the little tin foil dishes from jam tarts or similar to bits of garden string and hang them from a string between 2 canes above the veg patch. They are lightweight so they blow in the wind and rattle together, so the sound and the shininess seems to keep the birds off a treat.
, in reply to message 6.
Posted by youngandallotmenting (U14434252) on Thursday, 16th June 2011
I'm female and like pretty things! ...so I use those brightly coloured windmills to scare the birds. ...They make me happy too!
I also have a lovely scarecrow which surprisingly really works!
I think I must have Super Sparrows. I've not tried the bin bag trick but 20 CDs didn't deter them at all! I've planted more beans and surrounded them with sticks sticking straight up. That seems to have done the trick for now. Thanks for the suggestions.
On a similar subject, I bought a tray of mangetout reduced at the GC. A bit leggy and many snapped halfway up the stem. I've planted them all and trimed off the damaged parts.
But what concerns me is if there's enough time for them to recover and crop from what is essential a very late pinching out?
Thanks in advance.
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