I am trying to mix all my veg up on the plot so that I have individual plants dotted around – no need to cover them – this is meant to confuse pigeons so they don’t find the brassicas. I have tried this at home in raised beds where it has been very successful so far even though we feed birds on the lawn next to the veg beds and the pigeons come to feed along with the more welcome birds.
But on a demonstration allotment I am involved in it was good until we got the snow and then all the brassicas were eaten. We will try with dangling cd’s and foil next year and see if we are more successful! As with a demonstration allotment we do things in different ways to find out which are best – and we have a good supply of brassicas under netting which are doing fine – although the snow did weigh down the netting and needed clearing off and a few supports had to be adjusted.