for an ad-free Fetcheveryone experience!

Morning Light: The Fetchland Gardening Wire

78 watchers

Garfield Jun 2022 10:04am, 12 Jun 2022 16,724 posts	Quote Pin Garfield I've not done much in the way of a garden this year, though my neighbour gave me a tomato plant which I've just repotted in a larger pot. I found one red strawberry in a plant I didn't expect to exist too, along with a few hazel saplings compliments of squirrels burying in my pots!
Boffin Jun 2022 10:21am, 12 Jun 2022 111 posts	Quote Pin Boffin Strawberry find - result 🙂👍 Squirrels planting hazel.... just need to train them how to weed and maybe mow the lawn and we might be on to something 🤣🤣
Hanneke Jun 2022 10:26am, 12 Jun 2022 90,089 posts	Quote Pin Hanneke I think, re squirrels, you have a duty of care to actually control them? My trap bait got raten, hadn't set the trap sharp enough...
Garfield Jun 2022 10:44am, 12 Jun 2022 16,725 posts	Quote Pin Garfield LOL Boffin, if only. Hann, there aren't that many squirrels but they like burying hazel nuts, acorns in our front lawn. I'm pulling up a few saplings every year...and there are a few hazel bits in the holly hedge that I need to get at before they get too established.
Columba Jun 2022 6:04pm, 12 Jun 2022 21,791 posts	Quote Pin Columba - see en.wikipedia.org for possible cold-hardy citrus hedge. In my teaching days, the local farmers' sons told me they could get 50p per grey squirrel's tail. Easiest, presumably, if they could first kill the squirrel. That was years ago, it would probably be £5 by now if indeed it still applies. I don't know who made the payment.
Hanneke Jun 2022 7:29pm, 12 Jun 2022 90,102 posts	Quote Pin Hanneke It used to be 5 guilders for a rat's tail in the Netherlands.
alpenrose Jun 2022 7:42pm, 12 Jun 2022 55,721 posts	Quote Pin alpenrose My previous next door neighbour said that they got so much per grey squirrel tail when he was young. I've pulled a couple of oak seedlings today, apparently it's jays that bury them.
3M (aka MarkyMarkMark) Jun 2022 9:21am, 13 Jun 2022 18,398 posts	Quote Pin 3M (aka MarkyMarkMark) First fruits.... (Teaspoon for scale!) MrsMMM has most of it in her salad lunchbox now!
Hanneke Jun 2022 9:25am, 13 Jun 2022 90,120 posts	Quote Pin Hanneke I struggle with cucumbers! Start with 6 of the seeds germinating strongly. Then I pot them into 9 cm pots and 2 die. Then I plant them out and I am lucky if one survives. This year none! That reminds me, a friend offered me a spare plant. He also finds it a struggle and plants something like 4 packets to get the number of plants he needs...
D2 Jun 2022 10:58am, 13 Jun 2022 12,446 posts	Quote Pin D2 I kept my cucumber plants warm for much longer this year as I've had the same issue in the past and wondered if it was cold nights in the polytunnel that was killing them off. They are growing well and nearly have some ready to eat. Dont know if the warmth helped?