Fun with an ice cream tub

[thud]

Hi All,

We have a bird bath and several other water pots around the garden which we do our best to keep clean and filled.

In August, during all that rain, I dropped an old ice cream tub under my wife's Begonia pots on the patio. It was clean - I had used it for scraps for the birds. It quickly filled up with rainwater and the wildlife loved it. After a couple of weeks it was green and dank so I emptied it, cleaned it and refilled it with tap water, stood a few days to let the chlorine drop out. Nothing has been near since!

[Jandy]

Great pics, Thud! I specially like the hedgehog on his hind legs. Hope none of your visitors fell in!

[Hazelnuts]

Hi All,

We have a bird bath and several other water pots around the garden which we do our best to keep clean and filled.

In August, during all that rain, I dropped an old ice cream tub under my wife's Begonia pots on the patio. It was clean - I had used it for scraps for the birds. It quickly filled up with rainwater and the wildlife loved it. After a couple of weeks it was green and dank so I emptied it, cleaned it and refilled it with tap water, stood a few days to let the chlorine drop out. Nothing has been near since!

Hi Thud

Love your wildlife haven! Love the Hedgehog - that is the problem with bird tables - Hedgehogs cannot use them.

You do not have a water butt by chance, and use that to fill up your ice cream container

Would still water be alright to use - never thought of that one either? :rolleyes:

Regards
Kathy
x

[thud]

Thanks J - at one point I thought the Hedgehog was trying to climb in!

We have problems providing a water butt from our main downpipes Kathy. I have a water butt, which needs a new tap and hasn't been used for some years. I am thinking of fixing guttering to the shed to feed it. Not as much water as the house roof, but better than none.

[Merlin]

We have birdbaths but also a few old plant saucers sitting on the ground. Our rabbit always makes for one of those when we let him out of his run, even though there's a bottle on the side of the run. The saucers are filled from the water butt and the bottle from the tap. His favourite is the one on the patio that's slightly hidden so doesn't get changed as often as the others. He seems to prefer it with algae, leaves etc. The birdbaths need changing more often because they accumulate droppings, feathers and old food.