Making your patch more wildlife friendly

Bodger · « **Reply #15 on:** December 29, 2007, 11:07 »

Its just a gimic to get people to buy them.

splodger · « **Reply #16 on:** December 29, 2007, 11:08 »

Quote from: "WG."

Might be worth seeing which edible fungi would grow in chestnut logs, splodger? You could market the fungi, the impregnated logs, or both.

i don't think chestnut is any good for fungi growing as it doesn't rot down that well

we do have birch as well as beech, oak, hornbeam, ash and sycamore - and lots of laurel

but the only fungi that grows well in these woods is puff balls

i guess birch would be the best that we have

i have been invited to attend a course on growing fungi in a woodland enviroment - but it's too pricey for me really - but an interesting concept - especially since we have started to coppice - as the life is coming back to the wood now that the light can get back in

Trillium · « **Reply #17 on:** January 03, 2008, 20:32 »

I found this an excellent page for building bat houses, with good pix for those who just can't imagine details otherwise. It's through the National Wildlife Federation....

www.nwf.org/backyard/bathouses.cfm

I have similar plans from another site which no longer exists and hope to build houses from wood scraps and such. However, despite having quite a few very tall trees, these trees are the worst place to set up the boxes as the boxes would get no sun. The bats do live somewhere near here and it's great to see them flitting around our garden at dusk and scooping up loads of mosquitoes.

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Making your patch more wildlife friendly

Bodger

splodger

Trillium