the naked beekeeper
Field Bee
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- Location
- S.E. Cornwall
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- Enough
How do you keep 'em off!!!!!!!!!!
Netting. We use insect mesh for almost all the veg plot, the fine stuff that keeps out carrot fly and leek moth.Cats and veg plots - How do you keep 'em off
I deploy a fox trap. When a cat is caught it is given a good soaking with two buckets of the coldest water I can find, the trap (and cat) is then given a good shake. Cat is then released and usually goes supersonic as it clears the fence never to be seen again
Can only dream of that in the UK, can see the hue and cry from the pitchfork brigade now!
I'm not really able to be too beastly to living creatures, but have to admit to a degree of ill-will towards the young cat who adopted our garden, chased and caught many birds, tore my fleece cloche/tunnels to shreds and the veg inside, and peed on and killed several fairly precious plants. It was quite a shock one morning to find its dead, physically unmarked body on the patio. Took me two days of fairly hard work to find the owner - it spent much of its time in our garden but lived quarter of a mile away across a busy road - only to be accused of having harmed it! Had I not once lost a dearly-loved cat in a road accident and guessed at how distressed the owner might be I could have got madder with her than I ever had with the cat! It was up to her to find the cause of death, it was eighteen months old, so a bit young to have died of natural causes?
So try thinking evil thoughts against your feline visitors - you never know, it could work!
Grandad used to dab their bottoms with turpentine after catching in a ? fox trap... he was not particularly affectionate towards cats!
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