Tuesday, 15 May 2012

CD plant protectors

Being a gardener you need to be an optimist - you plant things in the hope that they will germinate and grow. No mean feat with all the things that eat young plants on our allotment- not only do we have the usual slugs and birds, we also have rabbits and deer - its a wonder anything survives!.

After our bean crop was decimated, I decided I needed to take action. We looked at all the other allotment plots I could see CDs worked well to scare birds. So we visited the pound shop to buy some. I asked the 'The Fairy' if she wanted to jazz them up - she suggested making flowers.

Sorting out which colours she wanted where




Sticking


The finished product (don't look too closely at the bed below - most of the beans have already been eaten and the bed needed weeding when I took the photo!)

4 comments:

  1. What a cool idea! Thanks for sharing on this week's Kids Co-Op Linky! -PlayDrMom

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  2. What beautiful flowers to add to and protect your garden. Thanks for sharing with Tuesday Tots!

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  3. How creative! Great idea for using recycled items too. Hope it works for you (we always have unwelcome critters in our garden too). Thanks for sharing at Discover & Explore this past week.

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  4. What a great idea, some nifty recycling, getting children involved, and solving a problem - fab.

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