"Bob Hobden" wrote in message
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"Christina Websell" wrote
"Bob Hobden" wrote
"Christina Websell" wrote ...

Are dire. They are only a few inches high and already flowering. I
know they are supposed to be dwarf peas..but this is ridiculous.
Is it too late to sow some more?
They had very bad cold weather and got drowned, then a spell of very hot
weather and then another drowning. Poor things have done well to
survive at all.
Should I pull them out and start again?



The mice ate all ours, all two 20ft rows. So no peas for us this year
unless I plant some earlies in July for a September crop.
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Blimey! You must have loads of mice. Does the old idea of soaking them
in paraffin work? ISTR my grandfather used to do that.
Ever thought of adopting a "mouser"? I sometimes see adverts from the
Cat's Protection League for these cats, they are usually ex-feral kittens
that have been tamed but are still a bit too shy for for mixing in with a
family as young adults - they prefer an outdoor life, apparently ideal for
farms and stables (and possibly allotments?) I assume you'd have to keep
them in your tool shed for a while to let them settle to the area and
obviously feed them. Sounds an ideal solution for hard to home cats and
also for rodent control.
Just an idea.

Obviously we do have a lot of mice, wood mice I think from the tunnels I
find through our soil and from the mice I have seen dart out from under
our cultivator. Tried poison but it does not seem to work on them or I
should say they don't appear to eat it. There is a cat on our site
somewhere, we see him most days we are down there if there are not too
many people about. He looks young and a bit scruffy and is certainly a bit
wild but does not look undernourished. :-)


Do consider it. One cat cannot do the whole allotment site, no wonder the
poor lad looks scruffy, he's so busy trying to do it all he has no time to
groom...
Yes, it would take three weeks or so to habituate an ex-feral to your plot,
but you'd benefit and so would s/he. It would cost around £3/week to feed
and a cat bed in your shed but your mice would be history and the birdies
would be reluctant to attack your crops.