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snail repellent
Farm1 wrote:
A good way to increase your local wren population is to provide them with nesting sites. A lot of my birdhouse gourd houses are occupied every year, sometimes twice in a season. :-) Easy to make too. I have quite a few birdhouse gourd seeds on hand if you want some? Thanks for the generous offer Om. Are you in Australia? If not then I must sadly decline due to quarantine concerns. Look at some of the gourds offered by Eden Seeds. http://www.edenseeds.com.au alphabetical, then G for gourds. (search for gourds didn't work) you might need to hand pollinate as well (like pumpkins). We grew one of their Large gourds (bottle) last years, but it wasn't pollinated and remained small and eventually rotted away.had However, I'm sure that the problem isn't breeding, we have lots odfine leaved shrubs and bushes and each year we have babies. It's just that the sodding Currawongs are such efficient and effective killers. Hmm, if you have stuff like cotoneaster, pycantha, etc locally, do all you can to get rid of them. It is believed these are part of the reason, currowangs overwinter on these and thus survive in greater numbers for spring. You also might like to observer if the small leaved stuff is actually protecting the small birds or if the currawongs "enter" the shrtubs in pursuit. chicken wire cage it or spiny pshrubs (bursaria) |
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