[heygrow]

I normally keep my peas netted all the time through to harvest to keep the pigeons off. However this year I'm growing mangetout instead. These are currently about 3 ft high in growth. Do I need to keep these netted or are the pigeons less likely to go for the pods?

Do others keep the netting up? I know DD is a big fan of netting his peas!

[DD.]

It's the pods my pigeons go for after they've made it past the tender shoot stage.

Doesn't matter if they're flat or full.

[J_B]

i dont usually net my mangetout

[DD.]

I have to!

[heygrow]

Well they're already netted, so I will leave it for now. It's just a pain when it comes to picking.
We have a number of resident pigeons hanging around, so don't know whether to take the chance.

[shokkyy]

I have a lot of pigeons in my garden, but for some reason they never bother the peas and I never net them. The only thing I've ever known them to attack is red cabbages, but I've got those netted against butterflies anyway.

[madcat]

They sit on the frame and eat the growing tips out of peas, beans, mange tout, sweetpeas .....     on the netting squashing it down over the brassicas    dear little birdies 

[DD.]

Don't they just!

[J_B]

thats unfortunate, the other day came home to find that they had ravaged a trough i have planted out and eaten all teh seeds

[shokkyy]

That could easily be squirrels. They love doing hooligan stuff like that, nature's ASBOs.