Thursday 19th July 2012 - bird protection and grass cutting

Well, apart from the slugs from last week (they returned indeed to have a couple of feasts on some more of our plants...) we had some birds attack our sweetcorn - we went straight down to the garden centre, otherwise we're being attacked on all sides!

At the garden centre

 We set about buying some netting from the garden centre, and then used some plastic pipes found in a skip a few months ago to create the general structure for the protection.

We measured out the netting and cut it to size, before pulling the netting over the pipes, securing it with sticks, stones and large lengths of wood.

It'll keep the birds off while the corn establishes and can cope with a small attack or too...

Finished 'corn protection'

Finally, we brought a pair of extendible shears - an investment tool where we can keep the paths clear from overgrown grass and tidy around the raised beds...

Finally, here's hows the allotment looks as of 19th July 2012;