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09-04-2015, 07:26 PM
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Re: keeping birds off veg/flower plants

Bleeding cabbage whites-they seem to be able to lay on fleece as well.
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09-04-2015, 07:48 PM
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Re: keeping birds off veg/flower plants

Originally Posted by Meg ->
I tried CDs and they only worked for a short time until the birds got used to them being there and found they posed no threat. In the end I used fine netting for the birds but the cabbage white butterflies still managed to lay eggs on my broccoli .
I realise it's controversial but I also use insecticides and fungicides on my fruit and veg, without them my produce wouldn't be fit to eat.
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09-04-2015, 08:06 PM
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Re: keeping birds off veg/flower plants

I use a few too Alan-but grief go back the years -even in 1977 when I started
It`s a wonder anyone survived.

I went `organic` so used nicotine-ha ha what a poison that is
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09-04-2015, 10:34 PM
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Re: keeping birds off veg/flower plants

You'll have to make a good old fashioned scarecrow.

That reminds me - in the paper the other day there was a man found dead, I think it was in Argentina, and it said he was naked from the waste down. Apparently he had been trying to have sex with a scarecrow. He'd even put a wig and lipstick on it!!!!!
I kid you not.
 
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