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Morning Light: The Fetchland Gardening Wire

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Markymarkmark Mar 2020 5:51am, 13 Mar 2020 10,855 posts	0 Markymarkmark jackdaw, it's also been home to the giant pigeons who systematically strip my vegetable beds.... There was more ivy than tree!
jacdaw Mar 2020 3:25pm, 18 Mar 2020 2,860 posts	0 jacdaw Mice are eating my broad bean seeds, in pots in the greenhouse. Does anybody have prevention suggestions. Mice clearly love the greenhouse as it is full of empty hazelnut shells.
Angus Clydesdale Mar 2020 3:31pm, 18 Mar 2020 17,085 posts	0 Angus Clydesdale Cat
Angus Clydesdale Mar 2020 3:31pm, 18 Mar 2020 17,086 posts	0 Angus Clydesdale Or a terrier.
jacdaw Mar 2020 4:22pm, 18 Mar 2020 2,861 posts	0 jacdaw I have a cat, but he is in bed most of the night, and likes to cause chaos in the greenhouse, so must be excluded. Also we have an endless supply of mice and voles.
Markymarkmark Mar 2020 4:26pm, 18 Mar 2020 10,887 posts	0 Markymarkmark Mousetraps. It might take a few nights work, though, unless you set a lot of them. Baited with broad bean seeds - or raisins, which they really ought to prefer!
Columba Mar 2020 8:39pm, 18 Mar 2020 19,458 posts	0 Columba I think I read somewhere a suggestion to discourage mice from eating sweet pea seeds by dipping them in paraffin before sowing them. Don't know if it works; but if it does, should work as well for broad beans as for sweet peas.
Columba Mar 2020 8:40pm, 18 Mar 2020 19,459 posts	0 Columba Slightly ambiguous sentence there. It's the sweet pea seeds you dip in paraffin, not the mice. Though dipping the mice in paraffin might work even better.
Dvorak Mar 2020 8:55pm, 18 Mar 2020 19,263 posts	0 Dvorak Whilst out for a walk, I thought about the various fruits* in my garden (and greenhouse) and reckon there are twenty different ones.** Another day, I might type out the list * Not all of which have actually provided fruit yet. ** Different fruits, not counting different varietals.
Cerrertonia Mar 2020 9:49pm, 18 Mar 2020 12,094 posts	0 Cerrertonia I have Tree fruits: apple, plum, cherry, fig. (No peach, apricot, pear, quince, medlar...) Soft fruit: blackberry, raspberry, gooseberry, jostaberry, blackcurrant, redcurrant, whitecurrant, strawberry. (No loganberry) In pots: blueberry Indoors: lemon, orange Greenhouse: physalis Stretching a point?: Date, Passion fruit (have plants, but unlikely to have fruit) Theoretically edible: Berberis Is it really a fruit?: Rhubarb I may have forgotten some, but I don't think I get to 20.