Moan, moan, moan----get it off your chest or have a chat

[Paul T]

oooh John, you're treading on a slippery slope with that last statement. 

[gote]

I find the mice and voles tend to eat different things in different years, once they get a taste for a particular think they will devour all of it.

Anemones one year, hellebore buds the next, Corydalis the next, trillium and paris the next...that was too much...now I feed them malteasers.....as that's the easiest way to bait a little snapper trap.  They never tire of chocolate....they never learn either...temptation is too much.

???They must all be female Mice!!???

This is also my observation. Since I have mice from the forest (Yes they dig from above) I try to remember putting a metal net above bulbs like crocus and corydalis. If the net prevents them from getting at the first bulbs they will not touch the others. The net should be metal, about 6 mm opening at least 1 cm below ground at all times and the sides should be bent down some 5 cm so they from small upside down cages. This also ensures that bulbs are not mixed up. Unfortunately I cannot do that with my self sown corydalis. So I also try to catch them. I use sunflower seed as bait in plastic traps. However, it is important to put cages over the traps so that birds do not get killed. When the invasion comes (which is soon) I take a couple of mice daily for one to two weeks. The invasion usually follows the same route. It must look like a highway from the mouse level.
 
Voles tunnel and I have previously described how to get at them.

Göte



 

[Lesley Cox]

[quote
 They never tire of chocolate....they never learn either...temptation is too much.

???They must all be female Mice!!???
[/quote]

They certainly have much in common with certain female members of this Forum.

[Maggi Young]

Without admitting to any particular vice/s, I would like to say in my defence that I have never eaten a crocus bulb 

[WimB]

So, chocolate would be the bait one would have to use to trap Maggi's. 

[Paul T]

But only the certain well-bred, garden loving, what-would-we-do-without-them Maggi's.    They're the only ones with a sufficiently trained palate to be attracted to chocolate!! 

[Tony Willis]

Without admitting to any particular vice/s, I would like to say in my defence that I have never eaten a crocus bulb 

I tried a Crocus cancellatus on a mountainside  in Turkey just for the experience-not good eaten raw

[Greenmanplants]

Too Late,

Over the week-end, they've snaffled two whole tubs of Anemones.

Characteristic 3 " of stubble left.

Now where are those malteasers!

[TC]

It does not work, or maybe it's because I was expelled from Sunday school at age seven ! 

[fermi de Sousa]

It does not work, or maybe it's because I was expelled from Sunday school at age seven ! 

Damn!

[Sinchets]

I'm sure I can't be the only person in the world with a rather slow dialup connection to the internet using an analogue telephone exchange. It would be great if we could all go back to small thumbnail pics, which people can choose to open, rather than the huge pics that 'time out' everything on the page by the time they have opened!
Come on give the rest of us a chance to decide what we want to make bigger!

[Paddy Tobin]

Simon,

Most photographs seem to be posted in the smaller size with the option of enlarging them if you wish. I have seen some which appear immediately as large format and do not understand why they were posted in this manner.

Certainly the smaller format would suit you better.

Paddy

[Sinchets]

Glad you agree Paddy. We are having connection problems just now, which means our connection is slower than usual.
I also noticed that large format pics open first, with the text, even if they are at the bottom of the page, which means the thumbnails higher up sometimes fail to open. They also open with the main text when I  am replying, using up unnecessary bandwidth 

[Maggi Young]

I have checked and it does seem that the photos loaded from Photobucket and other host servers are the most likely to be shown in previews, summaries, etc. : I have asked in the Website Developments Thread ( because there was further talk on this subject there) if those using such upload systems would perhaps consider changing. For those of us who have posted some full size pix, we'll go back to the thumbnails in future.

[Hristo]

Many thanks Maggi, the thumbnail format makes the site much faster to use and stops the local GSM server from timing us out! One day we will get ADSL, I chant this mantra often but it hasn't happened yet!