Kitchen Garden Forum

Hello,

One of my lottie neighbours has three or four rows of what I think is garlic. Around them, lying on the soil, are lots of canes - both between rows and around the edges.
Those plants haven't been touched by rabbits, even though they are eating everything else in sight (and I know from bitter experience that our allotment rabbits love garlic!).

Have any of you ever heard of this as a way of deterring rabbits?

I still don't know if that is why he put the canes there, but I can't think of any other reason why those plants are untouched, and would be interested to know if anyone else has either tried this or even heard of anyone doing it!

Morning Bert, an old lady in the village used to do such a thing, but i'm afraid i can no longer ask her for the reason, as she was dunked at the village pond then burnt at the stake.

oldherbaceous wrote:Morning Bert, an old lady in the village used to do such a thing, but i'm afraid i can no longer ask her for the reason, as she was dunked at the village pond then burnt at the stake.

In that case, maybe I won't try it myself, OH.

I'll just have to stick to plan A, instead.
Now, let me see: 'eye of newt', shouldn't be a problem; 'toe of frog', easy - no shortage of frogs around here; but does anyone know where can I get 'wool of bat' ... ?

Dear Bert,

The Mouse wrote: does anyone know where can I get 'wool of bat' ... ?

Not sure, but I can do you bat of wool

Brilliant - that will do just as well!
We can always rely on you, Alan.

So I'm back on course. Tongue of dog is easy - the neighbour's dog has always made far too much noise anyway! Adder's fork is more of a challenge, but is manageable.
Is there any chance of you finding me a Blind-worm's sting and a Howlett's wing? They are so hard to come by these days!

The Mouse wrote:
Is there any chance of you finding me a Blind-worm's sting and a Howlett's wing? They are so hard to come by these days!

Howlett's wing is easy peasy.............



Blind worms are readily available, but I'm having a devil of a job finding a stinging one