Topic: Your Next Meal May

[davyw1]

Be your last.  Come steal my peas you little blighters. First and last time i will set my Peas away in the ground.

[manicscousers]

what are they, davyw1?..can't quite make it out  :(

[theothermarg]

yes what are they i am desperate i found a whole row of peas slugged today and the row of pregrown swede all covered in slime please share the secret
marg

[davyw1]

See if this is any better I have to use photo bucket as i have not got Additional option

http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r111/stumpinsci/Picture050-2.jpg

[Jeannine]

Are they traps??

[davyw1]

Before i incriminate myself am i going to get told off. OK i confess yes they are. The vermin stick their heads in to get the food and as soon as they apply pressure to the food tray it trips.

[Jeannine]

I would rather they ate my Peas

[davyw1]

Every one to their own Jeanine, But our allotments have hoses, chicken/foul and pigeons so vermin is in abundance because of the free food on offer. In the past i have lost trays of veg where they have eaten the heads of the plants. You may not agree with my methods but i take every precaution not to damage any other wildlife
other than what will damage my garden
As its a hot, sunny, windy day i am off down the garden to commit GBH on the weeds.

[Robert_Brenchley]

I gave up using mousetraps because they always ended up catching rate, and the trap disappeared attached to the rat. Poison for me, but I found I could protect peas by putting them under cloches. Growing them in the mini-greenhouse didn't work too well this year, but the mice haven't found them when i put them up on the top shelves.

[Jeannine]

I wasn't moralising Davy, I just can't bear the thought of having to remove them after.  XX Jeannine

[davyw1]

I did not look at it that way Jeannine, Altho some would say it is cruel even tho the traps are humane and i know the problems that people have in having to deal with dead vermin some would rather see a Brassica chomped to bits rather than remove a Caterpillar let alone a rat.
But there is a side that some don,t look at, to replace the peas 2 x £1  for peas £3. 50 for compost £3.00 for bus fare Them flipping rats have just cost me £ £8.50.
I will stick to my guttering in future, less work better result.

[Jeannine]

Davy, for no other reason than they are icky !!! XX Jeannine