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Claire70

Joined: 22 Aug 2006
Posts: 144
Location: Surrey

Posted: Sun Dec 02, 07 8:52 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the quick replies, everyone's obviously got nothing better to do on a wet sunday evening in December

Mice: have only ever seen one, once, a few months ago now, but not impossible, I suppose.

Soil: this raised bed only got filled this autumn, it's a bit of a mixture from all over the place: some of our horrid sandy garden soil, some left-overs from grobags, some compost.... Not particularly compacted, I don't think.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 45460
Location: yes

Posted: Sun Dec 02, 07 8:55 pm Post subject:
mice dont like parrafin on planted things

Tay

Joined: 08 Oct 2006
Posts: 2811
Location: Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Posted: Sun Dec 02, 07 9:20 pm Post subject:
Perhaps moles could be the culprits? If there is no sign of their activity elsewhere on your plot, then mice are the other main option.

Sarah D

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 2584

Posted: Sun Dec 02, 07 9:24 pm Post subject:
Mice unlikely, I bet it's blackbird/s.

Mrs Fiddlesticks

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 10460

Posted: Sun Dec 02, 07 9:27 pm Post subject:
didn't Cab have a problem with a fox doing just that to his garlic?

LynneA

Joined: 25 Oct 2006
Posts: 4893
Location: London N21

Posted: Sun Dec 02, 07 9:28 pm Post subject:
Always the possibility with the amount of rain we've had lately that the soil's been washed away. (Has happened to some bulbs I potted in loam based mixture)

mochyn

Joined: 21 Dec 2004
Posts: 24585
Location: mid-Wales

Posted: Mon Dec 03, 07 7:58 am Post subject:
Blackbirds get my vote too. Have the cloves developed any roots yet? They are certainly strong enough to push out of any soil.

Went

Joined: 19 Mar 2006
Posts: 6968

Posted: Mon Dec 03, 07 8:05 am Post subject:

dpack wrote:

mice dont like parrafin on planted things

How is this applied or used ?

cinders

Joined: 04 Jun 2007
Posts: 2437
Location: norfolk The daft old bat club

Posted: Mon Dec 03, 07 8:09 am Post subject:

LynneA wrote:

Always the possibility with the amount of rain we've had lately that the soil's been washed away. (Has happened to some bulbs I potted in loam based mixture)

I think this is the case too,i have some allium bulbs pushed up,i think due to rain

mochyn

Joined: 21 Dec 2004
Posts: 24585
Location: mid-Wales

Posted: Mon Dec 03, 07 8:14 am Post subject:
On the other hand, some bulbs have roots that do the opposite: contracttile roots pull bulbs further into the soil! N.B. THIS IS NOT AN EXCUSE FOR JUST BUNGING BULBS ONTO THE SOIL! YOU STILL HAVE TO PLANT THEM! (Sorry, back into hortic. lecture mode there! )

Just Jane

Joined: 16 Mar 2006
Posts: 140
Location: France

Posted: Mon Dec 03, 07 1:14 pm Post subject:
I had this too - I think its the frost as it brings the larger particles (eg stones) to the surface. Good thing is I can see that they've started to put down roots without digging any up (am an impatient gardener & often rootle around to see if things have started to grow)

Blue Sky

Joined: 30 Jan 2005
Posts: 7658
Location: France

Posted: Mon Dec 03, 07 2:33 pm Post subject:

Nanny wrote:

mice?

not french ones or they would have eaten the garlic instead of leaving it in situ

You ain't wrong. We have lost whole beds of it to them before I started covering the beds. Couldn't understand why the garlic was gone from the neat holes that were remaining.

lottie

Joined: 11 Aug 2005
Posts: 5059
Location: ceredigion

Posted: Mon Dec 03, 07 2:40 pm Post subject:
I'd vote self pushed followed by birds---either happens to my onion sets---if it was mice wouldn't they have nibbled some?

Nanny

Joined: 17 Feb 2005
Posts: 4520
Location: carms in wales

Posted: Mon Dec 03, 07 8:31 pm Post subject:

lottie wrote:

I'd vote self pushed followed by birds---either happens to my onion sets---if it was mice wouldn't they have nibbled some?

as i pointed out, not unless they were french mice

did you notice any small creatures wandering round in berets and striped sweaters dragging strings of onions behind them?

if so, that is your french mouse.............

if they were small creatures in the process of spitting out the bulbs muttering "bloody filthy foreign muck" then they are your common or garden british mouse

lottie

Joined: 11 Aug 2005
Posts: 5059
Location: ceredigion

Posted: Mon Dec 03, 07 11:01 pm Post subject:
Either way the cat's not fussy----it's quite cosmopolitan---bit of a drag picking the berets out of its teeth though

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