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Why do people suspend mugs upside down on sticks over plants?




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To scare birds away?

24 Apr, 2010

 

I believe it is a way to collect Earwigs

24 Apr, 2010

 

it also stops you poking your eye out, when you bend down to smell them

24 Apr, 2010

 

Thanks for the replies - we've just bought a house with a garden that has several mugs suspended on sticks over what I think might be poppy plants and I wondered what their purpose was.

24 Apr, 2010

 

If they're to collect earwigs, there'd be straw or something similar in them, then you shake them out somewhere (far away!) in the morning.

24 Apr, 2010

Sid
Sid
 

.....or possibly a peice of installation art?!

24 Apr, 2010

 

Nothing very artistic about suspended mugs over plants Sid, but then again....who was it that made a fortune with the sheep in formaldyhyde.....;o)

24 Apr, 2010

 

to keep the birds off your plants, you can also use plastic bottles on canes and also old empty plant pots

25 Apr, 2010

Sid
Sid
 

I used CDs for a while until my neighbour complained they were reflecting flashes of light into his house!!

26 Apr, 2010

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