Peat Ballan

Small Wildlife pond

Petite pois to ye too, ma bonny Lass !

Small Wildlife pond

Peeps ! Let's be peaceful with each other ! Like , Man, woss wiv all these negative vibes ? Y'know wot Oim sayin'? Like man, it's a bummer to fall out over a bit of pond weed !  Come round an' meet mah frogs, dontchya know ?  Four frogs is eight eyes, like, wowwwww !  heavy heavy heavy !

The big frog says, Bon Soir, ma petites !

Au revoir, like.

Small Wildlife pond

Our wee wildlife pond is close to,  ( 1 metre ) off a patch of holly hedge, is about 3 sq. m in area. I put some mud and grunge into it from a proper wild pond, with some weed, and this was some 5 years ago. I have a resident population of 6 good frogs, who wish me 'bon jour' every day in the spawning season. It has virtually no attention but for desultory clearing of the worst of the weed during the year. I lined the hole with some spare pond liner that the gardening centre didn't bother to charge me for, bless 'em, and it slakes the thirst of our honey bees, wasps, butterflies, hedgehogs, da boidies, and gives us a spiritual re-charging of batteries. We love our time oop t'lotty, and it's worth every penny we spend on it, in it.

Save our bees

Got a hive oop t' 'lotty, and planning another. Insect box is ready, and a very good value for money ..........£3.00 for one of these is in Morrisons ! Could't make it yourself any cheaper !  Gunna get another I think !    Buzz on my little beauties!

Talkback: Help wildlife survive winter

Birds

A classic line from radio 4 and Gardeners QT. as heard by Mary Whitehouse.........

'tits, like coconuts........................................................................ ......and

sparrows like breadcrumbs.

Birds

Goldie-finches are beautiful, but wasteful philanderers of Niger seeds. I get a good crop of sedlings geowing underneath where their feeder hangs, and they only eat 1/2 of what I put out, the top half of the feeder. Ungrateful little wretches !  I do have tho' a very voracious cock peasant wot scratches up the grass as a sort of lawn scowerererer. Large patches of well worked grass around and about !  Bless ! He'll be for Xmas lunch !

best way to get rid of rats

Rent a lion for a couple  of days !

making leaf mould

Gawd ! Wot 'ave  I gorn an' done ? I thought I was the only etymological derivitive goon around here !

making leaf mould

I trundle 'round in the car with a few bags, and gather up the fallen leaves by the roadside. I get about 3 cubic metres this way, and then take 'em back to t'lotty, and dump the lot in the 'play pen,' for a year or so, then chop the lot with the mower, and if they are 'ready', use the stuff for mulching along beds, bean rows, peas  and fruit canes. No ill effects so far ! It might also attract a hedgehog, or something cuddly along the way. I have a ramshackle woodpile beside the playpen just in case.

By the way, WHAT is  ramSHACKLE ????? Is it similar to a 'newfangle' ??

bee hives

bonfires