In this video we look at 10 easy ways in which you can help wildlife in your own garden at this time of year.
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Compost your potato peel, brussel sprout trimmings and any other vegetable waste from the kitchen sink
A great video – such valuable suggestions
Another great video Joel π
Great advice, as always. Thank you
All good pointers. We've seen overwintering butterflies in a stacked woodpile. π
Nice one Joe. Great advice as usual. Forgot about the log pile. Must build one before it gets too late, got a space behind the shed.
Great advise, I find the more you try to tidy up at this time of year the more mess you make anyway. Much better to leave cover for wildlife over the harsh winter months.
These are great tips watching from America βΊοΈβΊοΈ
Less is more. Less tidying, more wildlife.
I've done several things that you've advised on tonight's video but not all, anyway we'll see you on Thursday for a bit more advice.
Great video mate. Wish Iβd known you were down near me in Southampton , I could have said hello π
I had my first grasshopper (Chorthippus brunneus) in my garden this summer, I was amazed by it because we don't see em in the city as often. When I was little they were everywere but because grass is being cut here so often they kinda died off. Hope I will get them again next year! It was a hot, dry summer and they seem to love that.
Leptophyes punctatissima has been VERY common in my garden – I have them for years and they do some minor damage to my plants but they always seem to recover. Always fun trying to look for them because they are so GREEN lol!
Great vid again, started feeding the wild birds this week and I already have counted so many species – even a Wren, this little bird was lost to my garden for so many years and now it came back, even sat close to the window inside my Laurel bush! Amazing!
Great video… Thank you for the tips. I've done what you said this past year, and found my first grasshopper and praying mantis in my garden this year. So, I'll continue following your tips!
I have tried the methods you advise, over a number of years with the small front lawn. I leave a small area about 5ft wide by about 15inches deep planted with grape hyacinth, with thicker and longer grass along the boundary.
I have noticed grasshoppers have appeared the last 2 years, we have Meadow ants in the lawn as well.
In the cold weather of 2018, I got some lovely shots of a green woodpecker looking for food on a neighbours lawn.
Well said Joel my front lawn is the only one uncut on our road
Ive only been here in Dorset for a year our neighbours are refusing to talk to us anymore but I am ok with that
I did try and explain even put a sign up but i refuse to cut it
Hi Joel, great vid as always. I live in rented accommodation & trying to explain to my landlady I'm not lazy it's a wildlife garden is difficult! It's just common sense that we have destroyed our wildlife by the way we live. My landlady's garden is all petunias, busy lizzie s & other pretty flowers. Useless to wildlife. She doesn't get it mate. I bought
Wild valerian off your website. It's not just a beautiful flower loved by bees, it smells gorgeous too. My pyracantha is already stripped of its berries by birds. I had the same problem as you in early summer, Robins nested in my nest box, raided by the dreaded introduced squirrels..pain in the butt. I could go on all day mate..keep up the great work we must help our wildlife
Great video joel our amphibians love our compost heaps this time of the year thanks for sharing πΈππΈ
My neighbours think I'm lazy for not cutting the grass or hedges, they even say "if you need tools I can lend them to you"…they don't understand it's not laziness, I'm preserving wildlife in my garden. They complain about deer getting in their gardens and eating their roses, I plant vegetables for them to come to the backyard where they find food, water and shelter when there are hunters in the area and they never eat my roses in the frontyard π
I don't mind being the "black sheep" in the neighbourhood, seeing the garden full of birds, insects, squirrels…it's worth it! π
If only humans were smart enough to organise their life cycles so we could sustain ourselves and benefit the environment around us, as trees do. π