Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: purplebean on July 01, 2010, 17:06
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For once it isn't the snails as they are in a big tub and there is no evidence of snail trails at all. I'm thinking mouse or it could be a bird but not sure what. Several of the nberries have chunks eaten out of them Any suggestions?
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It's the sparrows that are eating mine ::)
My fault, but I ran out of netting :(
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Could be mice or shrews or some sort, we get a lot of them eating ours ::)
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Blackbird is no 1 suspect , you can normally see v shaped beak marks. If the strawbs are hollowed out could be slugs or woodlice which like to live in pots. Mice are also a possibility.
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I think the marks I could see were probably beak marks, I judt need to be quicker picking them they were ripe and perfect yesterday and eaten today
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The birds are really clued in to what`s ripe and what`s not. I had my eye on a huge strawb but it was white so i thought i`d wait for it to colour up.
The blackbird didn`t and ate half of it. :mad:
I think their sense of smell is much better than we give them credit for. :)