The Organic Garden
tips and hints
TIP. Ask your butcher for scrap pieces of fat to hang in the fruit trees and fruit bushes. Because of the pecking order of birds, the birds that are in the queue will while away their waiting time searching the branches and crevices for hibernating insects and insect eggs. It does work.
TIP. Schoolchildren in the UK carried out a survey to find the flower most visited by hoverflies. It was found that the Poached Egg plants came out tops, so a plant here and there around your garden plot will be much appreciated by hoverflies.