What's happening in your garden.

[jetro 5,349]

16 minutes ago, Ted Newgent said:

Tomato plants starting to fruit

looking good this year

and again an abundance of raspberries 

 They will Make a nice jam.

Atb j 

[Ted Newgent 4,896]

4 hours ago, jetro said:

 They will Make a nice jam.

Atb j 

I should send you a jar

 can’t beat raspberry jam on thick white bread

[Greyman 28,087]

These endangered almost extinct hedgehogs are eating me out of house and home, not sure how many I have in total as I feed them in several places and some run from one bowl to another but recon minimum 3 maybe 5 different ones at the moment and still have not seen any little ones , interestingly they seem to roam 3/4 gardens and none of my neighbours even no they are there,so are they as endangered as they say or do we just not spend enough time out side poking about anymore ??? 

[Chid 6,489]

17 minutes ago, Greyman said:

These endangered almost extinct hedgehogs are eating me out of house and home, not sure how many I have in total as I feed them in several places and some run from one bowl to another but recon minimum 3 maybe 5 different ones at the moment and still have not seen any little ones , interestingly they seem to roam 3/4 gardens and none of my neighbours even no they are there,so are they as endangered as they say or do we just not spend enough time out side poking about anymore ??? 

Definitely a shortage near me last one I seen was 8 years ago , not even seen any roadkill ones 

[Greyman 28,087]

23 minutes ago, Chid said:

Definitely a shortage near me last one I seen was 8 years ago , not even seen any roadkill ones 

I would be saying exactly the same thing mate if I never had cctv cameras running in my garden 24/7 , but as soon as I spot one on the cameras I start putting a bowl of cat biscuits out each night and the numbers just get more and more, haven’t seen any other sign apart from the odd tiny turd they leave behind, but like you can’t remember the last roadkill I saw,

[dytkos 17,783]

57 minutes ago, Greyman said:

These endangered almost extinct hedgehogs are eating me out of house and home, not sure how many I have in total as I feed them in several places and some run from one bowl to another but recon minimum 3 maybe 5 different ones at the moment and still have not seen any little ones , interestingly they seem to roam 3/4 gardens and none of my neighbours even no they are there,so are they as endangered as they say or do we just not spend enough time out side poking about anymore ??? 

No too many badgers and wanker motorists, I'm seeing at least one dead one most nights.

Cheers, D.

[jetro 5,349]

5 hours ago, Ted Newgent said:

I should send you a jar

 can’t beat raspberry jam on thick white bread

Or mixed in Greek yogurt with walnut and honey. 

Atb j 

[jetro 5,349]

1 hour ago, Chid said:

Definitely a shortage near me last one I seen was 8 years ago , not even seen any roadkill ones 

Haven't seen one here in over 20 years, easily, what could wipe them out I wonder

Atb j 

[Greyman 28,087]

11 minutes ago, jetro said:

Haven't seen one here in over 20 years, easily, what could wipe them out I wonder

Atb j 

Badgers and cars as dytkos has said mate, I made a bit of noise last year about the arsewipe Brian May running a campaign to save badgers then started a campaign to save hedgehogs, the irony of trying to save the cause of the problem and the victim by the same man just shows how far removed from reality these guardians of our countryside really are

[Greyman 28,087]

Here you go just been out for a look around and the only sign left behind by them is this, they have a very small discreet run through the hedge and can squeeze through gaps that they look much to big for a gate in my neighbours garden they pass under has no more than 3” gap under it 

[Arry 21,381]

1 hour ago, Greyman said:

Here you go just been out for a look around and the only sign left behind by them is this, they have a very small discreet run through the hedge and can squeeze through gaps that they look much to big for a gate in my neighbours garden they pass under has no more than 3” gap under it 

Got them at mine mate, I do actively encourage them though. A wild area for them the slow worms and the birds. Squirrels are not welcome though been thinning them down.

Left over ferret food go's under the ferret hutch and the come every night.

Nice little run under the ferns behind the ferret hutch.

Another run parallel to my front steps. Don't know if you can make that out.

Little droppings every were, some very small ones, been trying to catch sight of some young ones.

Cheers Arry

[jetro 5,349]

Roses and sunflowers doing well these last few days 

Atb j 

[jetro 5,349]

Have  to finish painting this seat I made out of old pallets, rough but usable lol.

Atb j 

[jetro 5,349]

[jetro 5,349]

Went and collected some bog oak, going to use it in a flower bed as a feature 

Atb j