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Garden helpers

Helping birds

Attracting birds to your garden is a good idea! After all, they can help you keep insect pests in check. Each bird has different insects on its menu. For example, great titmouse like to eat the oak processionary caterpillars. A pesky garden dweller that we would all like to get rid of naturally! Many small bird species eat caterpillars that will eat from the cabbages in your vegetable garden. A few caterpillars are not a problem and we would like to keep them for the survival of butterflies but a plague in your vegetable garden is no fun.

Natural food sources

Insects are a good food source for young birds. Insects contain a lot of protein that is important for growth. But in addition to being a food source for many other animals, insects also help in the garden. For example, ladybirds eat a lot of lice and lay eggs on leaves where there is a lot of lice. The larvae, which cannot fly yet, crawl on the leaves in search of more lice. In this way, nature keeps the lice infestation in balance. Different species of bees and wasps are also very useful for the garden. In addition to helping with pollination, they also have a role in keeping other pests in check. For example, parasitic wasps also eat lice!

Feeding birds in winter

Because there are virtually no insects in the winter for birds the diet changes and they often eat more seeds. To help birds in winter, you can for example put up special peanut butter for birds. Fat balls are also a well-known winter snack for birds. The balls are often sold in nets but here the birds’ paws can get stuck. Therefore, as an alternative, we have a feeding silo in which you can put the fat balls. This prevents them from getting stuck in the net and you can still hang up fat balls as an energy-rich winter snack.