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Produce => Pests & Diseases => Topic started by: davyw1 on May 18, 2007, 20:06:14

Title: Your Next Meal May
Post by: davyw1 on May 18, 2007, 20:06:14

Be your last.  Come steal my peas you little blighters. First and last time i will set my Peas away in the ground.
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Title: Re: Your Next Meal May
Post by: manicscousers on May 18, 2007, 20:17:08

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

Title: Re: Your Next Meal May
Post by: theothermarg on May 18, 2007, 20:55:20

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

Title: Re: Your Next Meal May
Post by: davyw1 on May 18, 2007, 21:02:04

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

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Title: Re: Your Next Meal May
Post by: Jeannine on May 18, 2007, 22:03:37

Are they traps??

Title: Re: Your Next Meal May
Post by: davyw1 on May 18, 2007, 22:22:49

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.

Title: Re: Your Next Meal May
Post by: Jeannine on May 18, 2007, 23:01:32

I would rather they ate my Peas

Title: Re: Your Next Meal May
Post by: davyw1 on May 19, 2007, 08:23:18

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.

Title: Re: Your Next Meal May
Post by: Robert_Brenchley on May 19, 2007, 09:36:33

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.

Title: Re: Your Next Meal May
Post by: Jeannine on May 19, 2007, 11:15:12

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

Title: Re: Your Next Meal May
Post by: davyw1 on May 19, 2007, 13:54:45

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.

Title: Re: Your Next Meal May
Post by: Jeannine on May 19, 2007, 17:48:42

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