Thanks I think they are both. I can see the bird table from where I am sitting with the laptop and there are three on it. I did start chasing them off but I was just wasting my time.

Oh good. Let me know how you go on with them. This year I am growing sweetcorn for the first time dont know much about them. My sister and brother in law live on a farm in Zambia and grows them by the acre but they have different problems to us. They have wild pigs and other game eating their crops....

Thanks Chantal I will try that. We have decided not to do onions this year so I will have more room for other crops and my husband loves beetroot. (I dont eat it something to do with my childhood). I love leeks.

http://www.mr-fothergills.co.uk/search/sweetcorn Just googled for it and found that fothergills sell the seeds for £1.95 for 50 seeds. I copied the link from the site but I dont know if it will work as not done that before. Hope it helps.

Silly me just realised I have put this in the wrong place. Should have put my glasses on before doing it. Sorry.

I have a bird feeder in my garden which comprises four hooks with various sizes of feeders. I love watching the birds but my problem now is that the starlings have learnt to hang on and feed from the feeders with much flapping of wings and they are stripping the feeders of seed. Now the smaller bird...

This week I found an old a frame metal clothes dryer so I have put it up in the polytunnel and carefully placed several light weight boards to make shelves and it is holding about six trays. Quite please with my recycling. I am now looking for new ideas for staging. Also caught another mouse (6)

Last year I had a very bad beetroot crop and leeks as well. I was told by an old allotment chappie to sow the seeds in small modules to plant out when it was slightly warmer. Has anyone else done this or is it better to plant straight in the ground when the weather is right? I thought beetroot would...

Thanks Monika. I had never heard of Skunk Cabbage but assumed that the pointy things at the edge of the stream was gunnera. Never having seen gunnera emerging only seen it in full leaf. I am going again in the next few weeks so will have a closer look. I love sitting in bird hides watching the birds...

How do you find these things?

Not watched it yet, sky+ it I have been watching Carol Klein on Grown your own which I have really enjoyed. I must say that I think that the last two series of GW have not been as good as a few years back. I never missed an episode but now I can take it or leave it. I dont think for one minute that ...

My problem is that the top soil was scraped away when the site was cleared for allotments and with all the heavy rain what little I did have has been washed away. So there is no chance of digging it over because there is only probably a couple of inches then it is clay. So my only option is to bring...

I must say I have found this a very friendly and helpful site and have raised a smile many times reading some of the things that happen to people. Please keep it up everyone, I find I am switching on at every opportunity to see what has hap.pened or been said or to get advice Particularly the veggi ...

Last year with the weather being hot in March and April, (well it was round here) and then very cold in May and June. I kept leaving my doors closed and consequently I got tomato blight. I am going to get my husband to make me some covers for the mesh because it is a windy site where we are and I fe...

The mice have eaten most of my beans (twice) my sweet peas, and disturbed my nasturtiums. I now have a metal staging which used to be one of those small four shelf polytunnels which you can buy everywhere. We used to have it on our patio before I got the polytunnel. Last year I threw the cover away ...