Yeah, sorry...but if you lived on a farm you'd be okay :03:

True, although I'm not sure the Guv'ness would let me loose with a firearm...:o

Then your only other option would be to borrow a certain item of her underwear....NOT TO WEAR....and use as a sling shot :03:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/...L._SL1500_.jpg These: with moving wings and head should be intimidating; this also gets used in Napa for same grape problem with Xmas tinsel http://www.boddingtonsonline.com/products/mesh-and-netting/anti-bird-netting/anti-bird-netting-plastic.php

Fix the owl to the shed and drape netting over the fruit trees and I should be well away. Thanks!:up:

Time for a trip to Lowes. Wanna come, Frau K? :D

I need some landscaping pins to hold down some plastic and fabric and keep the weeds from sprouting in the front flower beds. I noticed while cutting the grass that the Dogwood tree is in full bud. I've been expecting the thing to give up the ghost but it keeps hanging on.:up: The wife has a big Lilac bush in the back corner of the lower fourty. It appears to be dead, dead, deadski.:up: I hate the thing because cutting the grass back there always fills the back of my shirt collar with flower petals. I think our neighbor out back may have sprayed it with a herbicide. I'll have to discreetly thank him.:D

Salt it. Be advised that nothing will ever grow there again until you remove and replace all of the sodium contaminated soil.
If you're not looking for a permanent ban on flora, clear or opaque plastic will allow the sun to cook the vegetation to death.

http://cdn.gohistoric.com/img/10/43/...ic_10436_z.jpg or wait a few thousand years! Carthage: after the Romans salted the earth. Third Punic War!:O:

Natural erosion and the laying down of new soil cured the Roman Foliday.:hmmm:

Great. I come back off holiday and the hose watering the apple tree came adrift so the tree didn't get nearly enough water. The soil was dry, quite a few of the leaves have curled up and I the flowers have gone. I gave it a good dousing, but I hope the situation is redeemable. Any suggestions?

Stick a spoonful of that (comes with the spoon) in a full watering can...has worked for me in the past.

http://www.tesco.com/direct/miracle-...FccSwwodhAMAIA

I've given it a dose of Tomorite, so we'll see how it fares. Fingers crossed.

Spring and summer in England :har::har::har:

:timeout: Its winter now. :O: Blooming northern hemispherians thinking the world revolves around them.