Shooting in peas time
Jul 07, 2021
4 minutes
If you asked an experienced pigeon shooter to name the highlights of his year, I’m pretty certain that the time of the newly sown peas would come reasonably high on his list. Pigeons have an uncanny instinct for a good thing. Shrivelled, bullet-hard seed peas are one of them. To human eyes they look like a shortcut to a bad attack of heartburn in the gizzard, but not to a pigeon.
You can drill peas. Roll them. Choose any way you can devise to cover them with a decent coating of soil, and the pigeons will still find them. I was invited to have a go at defending such a crop on some of the
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