ATTRACT BIRDS TO YOUR GARDEN
We never seem to grumble about wild visitors such as ladybirds or hedgehogs to our plots. But when it comes to birds, we’ve all had a moan about the wood pigeons ripping the brassicas to pieces, jays feasting on tomatoes or blackbirds helping themselves to raspberries. Birds aren’t actually all that bad and can play a vital role in your plot’s ecosystem – it’s all about achieving a careful balance.
As avid pest controllers, demolishing everything from snails to aphids and as consumers of windfall fruit, helping to break the lifecycle of damaging insects and also diseases, the spores of which may overwinter in the decaying fruit, birds can bring
