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Your wildlife month
BBC Gardeners World
|June 2024
The female will usually lay one clutch of up to eight eggs
By June, for most of us, all risk of frost has passed, and the garden can get on with being alive. Rejoice in the birds, bees, beetles and hedgehogs as they spend this precious time creating the next generation. Give them a helping hand when they need it: fill bare patches with bee-friendly flowers, put out water for birds and hedgehogs, and leave aphids and caterpillars where you find them - they are food for baby birds! If it's dry, water your garden using grey water (made with eco-detergents) and leave birds a daily dish of rehydrated mealworms (kept out of the reach of hedgehogs) so they can feed their chicks. Finally, if you took part in Plantlife's 'No Mow May' campaign then why not keep the mowe
This story is from the June 2024 edition of BBC Gardeners World.
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