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Sunday, 17 February 2013

Rats, aphids and ants

Hooray I found a new cord and even managed to get other fancy bits and pieces that can upload onto the I-pad. And am now trying to manage this through the blogger app. I expect all you very clever people out there might be clever enough to have sorted this all out. But I figure I spend time working in the garden and a lot less time on computers.... Let me know if you use the app and if you find it easier or a hinderance.

Anyhow despite a range of blogs I had hope to talk about last week I thought I would discuss my corn instead.



Doesn't it look lovely? Well the rats, aphids and ants thought so. So in a bed 1700 x 2000 mm I managed to get 7, yes 7 cobs to take inside. The rats ate about 60% of the crop while the aphids attacked the rest. I have stripped the corn the rats started with and plan on giving them to the neighbours chickens who I am happy to let eat. I can only hope the rats starve now (wishful thinking).





I do hope your corn is doing a thousand times better than my patch at the moment. A least I now have a new patch to plant up in which is greatly exciting as I have much to add that might be pest unfriendly.

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9 comments:

  1. Kirsty @ Bowerbird Blue18 February 2013 at 10:09

    Noooooooooo, how heart breaking, darn rats. They haven't done any damage to my crops so far but they are alive and well in our compost. I tried blogger on the iPad but it didn't work to well for me so went back to the desk top. Not all clever out here.

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    1. digging up the dirt18 February 2013 at 18:25

      I might just have to give it a few goes on the pad to work out all the nuts and bolts I think. The worse thing was we had some of the corn last night and it was so so tasty it seems unfair

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  2. Bek18 February 2013 at 20:42

    Oh, that's so frustrating! At least you managed to get some cobs, but I do understand your rat and aphid hate.

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    1. digging up the dirt19 February 2013 at 06:36

      It was a bit weird as the aphid areas seemed to make it rot. There was a smell of rot around there unless it was rat pee? Eww not worth thinking about

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  3. Liz18 February 2013 at 21:04

    Oh no! That's horrible - i hadn't thought of them going after corn. My rats seem to have gone into hiding (or more likely into next door to eat their crops instead)but even when they were around I hadn't though to to worry about the corn which is just starting to set cobs. I wish i had some wisdom on how to deal with them but I crossing your fingers and hoping they go away seems to work.

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    1. digging up the dirt19 February 2013 at 06:38

      Strangely I think maybe there are less around now they have done the damage as I am getting beans again (but that could be because of the cooler weather). Mine were fine right up to the point that they were ripe, quite a disappointment

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  4. Pennie 19 February 2013 at 09:27

    My Sweet Corn is doing really well, when I'm ready to enjoy some I just go up to my local fruit shop... nice and fresh and Delicious!

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  5. digging up the dirt20 February 2013 at 06:22

    Wow David is lucky to be given any space for his veg. How re his Tomatoes going?

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  6. Pennie 20 February 2013 at 08:19

    Tomatoes?? is David growing Tomatoes?? LOL!

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