We find that the starlings only visit our feeders when the pastures around us are frozen solid.
We only have two hanging feeders, both filled with a mixture of sunflower hearts, suet bits and dried mealworms. They both have a solid wide tray underneath to catch any bits and a steel cage all round. We bought them from the RSPB, they were expensive but have lasted already for years. The tray stops most bits hitting the ground and attracting our long-tailed friends (but there are just enough crumbs for dunnocks etc) and the cage stops any squirrels or pigeons alighting. The great spot woodpecker clings on to the cage and just pops his head through it to reach the food.
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Ref the small growing space. Does size really matter?
I only have an indoor garden in a city centre flat but it's providing my kitchen with lots of useful and delicious ingredients on demand! My focus is on things which are impossible or very expensive to buy, ie herbs and various (cut and come again) greens. It gives us a great deal of joy and satisfaction to wander into the "garden" (in the living room) and select plants for the meal currently in progress in the kitchen.
It's probably not quite as much satisfaction as Raymond Blanc gets but, there again, I don't have to cook for as many people!
Enjoy what you have! Good luck with the garden.
I only have an indoor garden in a city centre flat but it's providing my kitchen with lots of useful and delicious ingredients on demand! My focus is on things which are impossible or very expensive to buy, ie herbs and various (cut and come again) greens. It gives us a great deal of joy and satisfaction to wander into the "garden" (in the living room) and select plants for the meal currently in progress in the kitchen.
It's probably not quite as much satisfaction as Raymond Blanc gets but, there again, I don't have to cook for as many people!
Enjoy what you have! Good luck with the garden.
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My little seed order arrived in the post yesterday.
I ran this year on oddments in stock plus KG magazine seed packet enclosures but having done some winter digging to tidy up the back garden got a bit more enthusiastic again enough to make a few clicks online with Simply Seeds for some new stock.
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I ran this year on oddments in stock plus KG magazine seed packet enclosures but having done some winter digging to tidy up the back garden got a bit more enthusiastic again enough to make a few clicks online with Simply Seeds for some new stock.
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Don't go flooding the market with vegetables, Clive....
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I'm thinking about seed potatoes. I would certainly usually get them locally just to support local shops (not that I have a high opinion of the garden centre in the town) but may shop online from the reputable suppliers. Last year I just recycled from the crop.
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I'm pacing up and down waiting for first light, so I can get at it...digging, that is...
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No digging here this morning...cast iron hard ground once again.
I have got most of the clear open areas dug...got to start on the fiddly bits of weeding and forking around everything else asap.
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I have got most of the clear open areas dug...got to start on the fiddly bits of weeding and forking around everything else asap.
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As predicted, the fox has been digging in my new veg patch of beautiful composted manure!
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We're about to head to the allotment, but not planning to do much. Freezing here again, but thankfully the fog that blanketed us yesterday has cleared.
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Retropants. I guess the smell of the composted manure attracted the fox, and that nice freshly dug patch looks too good to resist. I guess all the local cats will be making a beeline for it too!
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I'm sure they will! I'll be out with the paprika shortly!
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oldherbaceous wrote:I'm pacing up and down waiting for first light, so I can get at it...digging, that is...
FLOODLIGHTS ?