"kafifa" wrote in message
s.com...
Hi thanks for all the great advice so far on my new garden - I've
decided to tackle the borders and sort out the lawn

I wanted to know if the 'miracle seed' stuff that advertises in
gardening magazines is ok to use?

It's OK, but it's a rip-off. Usual caveats apply - if it looks too good to be true it almost certainly is. The seed
as far as I can tell is just the same as any other. The miraculous treatments to aid germination etc are just the
same as those used by other suppliers. The best protection from birds is to rake the seed in and compact slightly
by tamping with the back of your rake. The covered seed will germinate better as well. Whatever it says on the box
1 1/2 oz per sq yd is more than sufficient - I use half that.

Rod

"martin" wrote in message after Bob wrote:


"Annelies" wrote in message
And are they suggesting you'll have a *LAWN* in 5 days? I'd say that
was
a claim for the Trades' Descriptions Act. Under very favourable
conditions you might see the tips of some of the shoots appearing in
five days......

Provided you kindly and foremost politely ask the birds to have their
banquet somewhere else..........


Ah! But that where all those Cd-roms from AOL come in handy, hang them on
strings across where you have seeded so they flash in the breeze.

It takes most small birds about 2 minutes to get used to flashing CDs.
I hung them among the balls of fat and bags of peanuts and timed how
long it took for birds to ignore them.

But it will keep the pigeons off and they do by far the most damage.
--
Regards
Bob

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and find intelligent life amongst the stars

On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 14:59:38 -0000, "Bob Hobden"
wrote:


"martin" wrote in message after Bob wrote:


"Annelies" wrote in message
And are they suggesting you'll have a *LAWN* in 5 days? I'd say that
was
a claim for the Trades' Descriptions Act. Under very favourable
conditions you might see the tips of some of the shoots appearing in
five days......

Provided you kindly and foremost politely ask the birds to have their
banquet somewhere else..........


Ah! But that where all those Cd-roms from AOL come in handy, hang them on
strings across where you have seeded so they flash in the breeze.

It takes most small birds about 2 minutes to get used to flashing CDs.
I hung them among the balls of fat and bags of peanuts and timed how
long it took for birds to ignore them.

But it will keep the pigeons off and they do by far the most damage.

It didn't do that either.
--

Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit;
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad

"martin" wrote in message after Bob wrote:


"Annelies" wrote in message
And are they suggesting you'll have a *LAWN* in 5 days? I'd say that
was
a claim for the Trades' Descriptions Act. Under very favourable
conditions you might see the tips of some of the shoots appearing in
five days......

Provided you kindly and foremost politely ask the birds to have their
banquet somewhere else..........


Ah! But that where all those Cd-roms from AOL come in handy, hang them on
strings across where you have seeded so they flash in the breeze.

It takes most small birds about 2 minutes to get used to flashing CDs.
I hung them among the balls of fat and bags of peanuts and timed how
long it took for birds to ignore them.

But it will keep the pigeons off and they do by far the most damage.
--
Regards
Bob

Use a useful Screen Saver...
http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/
and find intelligent life amongst the stars

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I just discovered that hitting the reply button in Outlook sent my reply to
Jacques personally instead of to the group .....
Sorry, just discovered the function of the 'reply group' button..........

But it didn't drop in my mailbox - probably because it's a spamtrap address.

You'll be getting it back shortly.

If you can decipher the code down \/ there it tells you how to adjust
the address to make it work....

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I just discovered that hitting the reply button in Outlook sent my reply to
Jacques personally instead of to the group .....
Sorry, just discovered the function of the 'reply group' button..........

But it didn't drop in my mailbox - probably because it's a spamtrap address.

You'll be getting it back shortly.

If you can decipher the code down \/ there it tells you how to adjust
the address to make it work....

--
Rusty
Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar.
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/

The message
from "Bob Hobden" contains these words:

Ah! But that where all those Cd-roms from AOL come in handy, hang them on
strings across where you have seeded so they flash in the breeze.

It takes most small birds about 2 minutes to get used to flashing CDs.
I hung them among the balls of fat and bags of peanuts and timed how
long it took for birds to ignore them.

CDs probably written in English (FSVO English) and your Dutch brids
can't understand them.

But it will keep the pigeons off and they do by far the most damage.

I was having my sunflower heads savaged by small feathery things and I
put up a white carrier bag atop a thin six foot cane. It only needed a
breath of wind for it to lurch all over the place. They never came near
my cockatiel food again.

--
Rusty
Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar.
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/

The message
from "Bob Hobden" contains these words:

Ah! But that where all those Cd-roms from AOL come in handy, hang them on
strings across where you have seeded so they flash in the breeze.

It takes most small birds about 2 minutes to get used to flashing CDs.
I hung them among the balls of fat and bags of peanuts and timed how
long it took for birds to ignore them.

CDs probably written in English (FSVO English) and your Dutch brids
can't understand them.

But it will keep the pigeons off and they do by far the most damage.

I was having my sunflower heads savaged by small feathery things and I
put up a white carrier bag atop a thin six foot cane. It only needed a
breath of wind for it to lurch all over the place. They never came near
my cockatiel food again.

--
Rusty
Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar.
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/

The message
from "Bob Hobden" contains these words:

Ah! But that where all those Cd-roms from AOL come in handy, hang them on
strings across where you have seeded so they flash in the breeze.

It takes most small birds about 2 minutes to get used to flashing CDs.
I hung them among the balls of fat and bags of peanuts and timed how
long it took for birds to ignore them.

CDs probably written in English (FSVO English) and your Dutch brids
can't understand them.

But it will keep the pigeons off and they do by far the most damage.

I was having my sunflower heads savaged by small feathery things and I
put up a white carrier bag atop a thin six foot cane. It only needed a
breath of wind for it to lurch all over the place. They never came near
my cockatiel food again.

--
Rusty
Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar.
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/

Xref: kermit uk.rec.gardening:187253

The message
from martin contains these words:

It takes most small birds about 2 minutes to get used to flashing CDs.
I hung them among the balls of fat and bags of peanuts and timed how
long it took for birds to ignore them.

But it will keep the pigeons off and they do by far the most damage.

It didn't do that either.

Can't have been AOL ones then.

--
Rusty
Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar.
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/

Xref: kermit uk.rec.gardening:187253

The message
from martin contains these words:

It takes most small birds about 2 minutes to get used to flashing CDs.
I hung them among the balls of fat and bags of peanuts and timed how
long it took for birds to ignore them.

But it will keep the pigeons off and they do by far the most damage.

It didn't do that either.

Can't have been AOL ones then.

--
Rusty
Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar.
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/

Xref: kermit uk.rec.gardening:187253

The message
from martin contains these words:

It takes most small birds about 2 minutes to get used to flashing CDs.
I hung them among the balls of fat and bags of peanuts and timed how
long it took for birds to ignore them.

But it will keep the pigeons off and they do by far the most damage.

It didn't do that either.

Can't have been AOL ones then.

--
Rusty
Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar.
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/

The message
from "Bob Hobden" contains these words:

Ah! But that where all those Cd-roms from AOL come in handy, hang them on
strings across where you have seeded so they flash in the breeze.

It takes most small birds about 2 minutes to get used to flashing CDs.
I hung them among the balls of fat and bags of peanuts and timed how
long it took for birds to ignore them.

CDs probably written in English (FSVO English) and your Dutch brids
can't understand them.

But it will keep the pigeons off and they do by far the most damage.

I was having my sunflower heads savaged by small feathery things and I
put up a white carrier bag atop a thin six foot cane. It only needed a
breath of wind for it to lurch all over the place. They never came near
my cockatiel food again.

--
Rusty
Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar.
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/

Xref: kermit uk.rec.gardening:187253

The message
from martin contains these words:

It takes most small birds about 2 minutes to get used to flashing CDs.
I hung them among the balls of fat and bags of peanuts and timed how
long it took for birds to ignore them.

But it will keep the pigeons off and they do by far the most damage.

It didn't do that either.

Can't have been AOL ones then.

--
Rusty
Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar.
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/

On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 16:44:26 GMT, Jaques d'Alltrades
wrote:

The message
from martin contains these words:

It takes most small birds about 2 minutes to get used to flashing CDs.
I hung them among the balls of fat and bags of peanuts and timed how
long it took for birds to ignore them.

But it will keep the pigeons off and they do by far the most damage.

It didn't do that either.

Can't have been AOL ones then.

Perhaps Dutch pigeons are bright enough to ignore AOL offers?
--

Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit;
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad