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Post by grindle on Dec 14, 2017 5:52:18 GMT
done much the same as you SueA I did order another bird feeder the one I was using for the smaller birds kept being raided by the starlings, so now I've got one in a cage that they can't get in, the sparrows looked a bit confused, but they soon worked out how to get in
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Post by Rosie on Dec 14, 2017 8:43:17 GMT
We did the same, we bought a caged feeder to stop the woodpecker getting at the fat balls, the birds took a couple of days to figure it out. Now the woodpecker nicks all the peanuts
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Post by Eli on Dec 14, 2017 15:01:41 GMT
You try to protect your plants from frost by placing an old length of carpet over one of those plastic greenhouses containing lots of Christmas and Easter cacti, and then it rains so you can't go out to remove it. Then the carpet gets so wet and heavy that the whole thing topples over and the plants fall out on to the patio, so you have to go and pick them up and see what damage has been done to them, and pick the plastic greenhouse up as well, and also the soaking length of carpet. And it's about 10 feet long so where do you put it to dry ? That's what I did today
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Post by lesley on Dec 14, 2017 18:43:32 GMT
That's not good Eli, hope you managed to save them all. Haven't done anything in the garden for ages, but tomorrow were have our eucalyptus pollard, so it will look very bare for a while i'll try and get photo of it now and after hoping the weathers fine.
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Post by SueA on Dec 15, 2017 9:03:09 GMT
Hope you get everything sorted & dried out Eli, maybe 'bubblewrap' might be more suitable although not as warm as carpet ( except when it's soggy! ). Hope the pollarding goes well lesley, I think eucalyptus trees have a tendency to blow over if they get too big, seem to remember someone on here losing one once in a gale. Only fed the birds & changed the tealights in the greenhouse again yesterday, baked our Christmas cake instead of gardening.
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Post by lesley on Dec 15, 2017 13:58:46 GMT
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Post by grindle on Dec 16, 2017 6:13:00 GMT
it'll give you so much more light in the garden lesley I didn't even see the garden yesterday
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Post by Bess on Dec 18, 2017 23:25:58 GMT
Sounds a bit tragic with the Wet Carpet problems, Eli! I hope your plants recovered. I considered using old carpet on top of the chicken house, but probably a good thing I didn't, by the sounds of it. I used to struggle insulating those plastic greenhouses at our old place. Like SueA suggested, bubblewrap can work - if you can get it fixed in place so it doesn't blow away? I used to tuck it inside the roof, under the frame - was fiddly though!
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Post by grindle on Dec 19, 2017 5:19:36 GMT
I hope you managed to sort things out Elijust fed the birds and put stuff in the compost bin
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Post by SueA on Dec 19, 2017 9:43:39 GMT
I just cleaned the bird feeder trays & refilled them & pushed a couple of little primrose plants into the 2 hanging baskets on the arbour seat at the end of the garden.
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Post by vc on Dec 19, 2017 10:32:07 GMT
Quick check on gh and garden........flower buds on daphnes and hellebores. Some primulas flowering as are osteospermums and late flowering salvias. Sarcoccoca, hamamellis and lonicera Winter Beauty look impatient to put out their scent too Filled neighbour's coal bunkers earlier......how come the bags get heavier after loading a few?
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Post by vc on Dec 19, 2017 10:39:21 GMT
Just posted my avatar. This is the latest photo I have of me; the best too I have to say
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Post by Eli on Dec 19, 2017 12:52:48 GMT
Thank you all ... the plants are all right. I put them all back in their pots and back in the plant house and all is well again ... for a while lol
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Post by grindle on Dec 20, 2017 5:10:43 GMT
I stood in the front garden yesterday and cleaned the car
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Post by SueA on Dec 20, 2017 8:34:14 GMT
I stood in the house & watched the squirrel digging up/eating/burying nuts in the garden!
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