Grrrr!!!

[pickledtink]

Apparently they don't like male urine so..samples in a bottle to the address supplied......

Thank you kindly but I think I'll pass. I'm not pouring pee all over my squashes.

[SueA]

No netting/fencing possible here. I live under a cliff face and my 'garden' has been hacked out of it in little outcrops over the years. My biggest growing space is 4 x 3 ft and everything is on a slope and wedged in between rocks with nowhere for me to stand to weed or tend.
I've been trying to post some pics but the whole resizing thing has defeated me.

Saw a dead badger on the road today. Very sad. I thought it was a wild pig at first.
Sticking some prickly twigs around is all I can do.
Anyone know what Badgers don't like? Smells etc?

It was probably the local mountain goats then!
I have only ever seen dead badgers & I am heartbroken whenever I see them by the side of the road. You could probably get some of that 'Lion's roar' stuff which is spread around to frighten off cats etc. it might work with badgers & foxes too, I think it's based on lion manure.

[pickledtink]

No sign of it since. Squash has already spread out and covered up. I snivelled over those lush growing tips and baby squash for two days before hurling them onto the compost heap though.
I think I need to get out more.*worried look icon*

[sewer rat]

if foxes are your problem, a visit to your local barbers is required - HF-W reckons that if you hang tights or stockings filled with human hair rund your garden boundary then foxes will stay away - don't know if it works but he and a few others reckon it does.
Me - I'd sit up with a gun, but then, as other grapes will tell you, I like shooting things - for the pot and vermin.
As an aside, I was told tonight that young rooks are very tasty - notsure if I'm brave enough for them though.

[dexterdoglancashire]

Hi Rat - have just been watching an episode of H F-W in Cook on the Wild Side, where he goes catching rooks in a tree. interesting viewing i must say. don't fancy eating them tho! Had a lovely bunny stew last week with lots of home made veg, and a whole bottle of red wine in the sauce. yum yum! dexterdog

[pickledtink]

My Scottish childhood included my Uncles contributions to the pot. ( he used a crossbow) We ate everything. Rooks were a regular. Grandma did them in a pie with bacon, onions and turnips. Thank goodness she took the beaks out. Unlike the Snipe. They were served gutted and plucked but whole with the beak rammed through the body as a natural skewer.

[Snadger]

Hi Rat - have just been watching an episode of H F-W in Cook on the Wild Side, where he goes catching rooks in a tree. interesting viewing i must say. don't fancy eating them tho! Had a lovely bunny stew last week with lots of home made veg, and a whole bottle of red wine in the sauce. yum yum! dexterdog

Once seen Hugh Fearnley Whatsisname cook a hare and use its blood to thicken the gravy Yuuck! Yet I love black pudding, funny that

[Snadger]

if foxes are your problem, a visit to your local barbers is required - HF-W reckons that if you hang tights or stockings filled with human hair rund your garden boundary then foxes will stay away - don't know if it works but he and a few others reckon it does.
Me - I'd sit up with a gun, but then, as other grapes will tell you, I like shooting things - for the pot and vermin.
As an aside, I was told tonight that young rooks are very tasty - notsure if I'm brave enough for them though.

Pidgeon breasts is my favourite!!! Yum

[dexterdoglancashire]

Nowt like a bit of black pudding with lots of english mustard! I love them - even though I once worked when I was a student in a butchers/bakers where I saw the black puddings before they had been cooked - not reccommended! dexterdog