Pigeons in the garden
Glenn Jones(9b)
4 years ago
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help with pigeons!!
Comments (10)I'm in a constant battle with them. Have tried shiny streamers, plastic windmills, owl figures of all kinds, anything that would shimmy and shake in the wind, vaseline on the railings - nothing works. I'd like to try the plastic spikes, but it would cost a small fortune to put them out there - they'd have to be on top of the railing as well as on the ledge at the bottom of the baclony. My biggest problem with them (two in particular) is that they are forever trying to make babies on my terrace. Four eggs already this spring (picked up and destroyed, so now I can feel like a murderer). This particular couple has been around for years and I simply cannot get rid of them! My garden this year looks like crap, what with all the various protections I've got over my pots to give the plants a chance to grow - aside from pigeons, this year I got a ton of those pesky little starlings eating my plants. The bamboo skewers in the pots were pretty effective against the pigeons, but those starlings just swooped into the pot from the top and ripped up/out quite s few small plants. A BB gun might work - but I don't want to kill or injure them, just keep them away from my terrace. Sigh. PV...See MoreLentil Picture from Garden
Comments (19)Chaman, You are living in the USA and employing its English for daily referents. I am not impulsive but instead critical of your instantaneous dismissal of Solanum, as you might note from my posting. Also note that i make clear that you are using a common Indian English referent, 'lentil' to translate 'dal', the seed of legumes. When the common language of the culture you and I have adopted as our own use 'lentil' for a specific legume, it is misleading and erroneous to plug in 'lentil' to denote some special usage. Examine the syntax in your phrase "Lentil group of Legumes": what does that mean? We are asking for some purist version of English. What I am VERY CRITICAL of, though, (and I mention this in my poat) is how you jumped downed Solanum's throat without stopping to consider that he might have made a valid point. Now you want to cover up your ignorance with more aggression. Tuer Variety? Do you understand what 'variety' denotes in common language and in a botanical context? Two entirely separate things. Why not: Pigeon peas from my garden? or, Toor Plant (a type of 'lentil') from my garden? BTW, Chaman, if you have to know, my professional work involves the biochemistry/genetics/genomics of rhizobial membranes, apyrase , PEP carboxylase, P inorganic nutrition, in Medicago truncatula/soybean/tomato/arabidopsis, for the last 27 years. So yes, i do understand a little bit about the definitions of Lentils and Legumes, pigeon peas etc. thank you very much. gautam...See MoreAny great gardens in Pigeon Forge, TN area
Comments (2)Try Dollywood. There are several gardens throughout including the "Friendship Garden." I wouldn't go strictly for the gardens but they're very nice in the summer....See MoreEurasian collared doves v pigeons
Comments (1)i moved up here fom another place almost 4 years ago. South West corner of Colorado There were only a few of the collared doves around. But now i get as many as 20 at a time. When the farm crops such as wheat or oats or other grains are ripening i see most of them in the farm fields. But in bad weather or winter they are thick around my feeders. They are getting thick enough in Colorado so much that they are now added to the Dove hunting season. they breed year around and have as many as 4 broods. they are not timid around other birds and push their way in to the food. since they are mostly ground feeders and slow to fly the stray cats get one now and then. they don't migrate like the other doves and i see them most any time of year....See More
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4 years agoGlenn Jones(9b) thanked sultry_jasmine_nights (Florida-9a-ish)Glenn Jones(9b)
4 years agoDG, I hunt dove which is close but I am not allowed to eat these.
Silvia, thank you your to kind
Sultry, they are doing a good job making fertilizer.
See the pretty white one. It's gone. Daughter went out to feed them this morning and it got out. While putting the food in. I spent the morning modifying the loft so she can put in food and water with out opening the big door. It was a very stressful morning. Hopefully the problem is solved.
sultry_jasmine_nights (Florida-9a-ish)
4 years agoGlenn Jones(9b) thanked sultry_jasmine_nights (Florida-9a-ish)Glenn Jones(9b)
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