Gardeners, can you tell me why my neighbour has a medicine bottle on a stick in his garden?

Question

I can see it from my sitting room window. He has a medicine bottle upside down on a stick. The stick's about six feet high. The only thing I can think of is that it's food for a sunflower he's hoping to grow but its been there all winter and I can't see anything in the bottle. I know, I'm a nosy neighbour.

Answer 1

Do you have moles in your area? When the moles are going about their own business underground and bump into a stick, the bottle rattles and sends vibrations down the pole, scaring poor little moley away. But leaving your neighbour with a nice flat lawn with no mole hills.

Answer 2

This is an old trick used to keep moles away from the area. The wind rattles the bottle against the stick and the vibration travels down into the ground. The moles don't like the feel of the tremors and stay away.

Answer 3

Gardeners often put things like medicine bottles on top of canes to avoid themselves and others getting poked in the eyes

Answer 4

It depends.. Some older people around where I live use bottles and such as markers on sticks of bulbs or plants that they have planted or even as a marker of say a septic tank, even 6 foot high; and some people put glass bottles on sticks as lawn ornaments...to each their own.

Answer 5

He could be using them as eye protectors. To protect his eyes not the cane's.

I use old corks on the top of my canes, so that one, I can see them, and two, if I don't see them, they will do less damage than an uncorked (bottled) cane. You can buy purpose-made protectors, which may be prettier but medicine bottles and corks are cheaper.

Hope this helps to satisfy your curiosity.

Answer 6

Maybe it's just where it landed when he scat it out of the window (cause the medicine wasn't working)!

Maybe he put it there to annoy and confound you!

Maybe the stick was ill?

Or he might think it a bird or cat scarer.

.....Or maybe it's just 'modern art'.

Answer 7

i know of people having bottles in the garden to deter cats maybe he is using it as a scarecrow to stop birds eating seeds.
I'd be nosey to spend all day looking for him to leave house and you just happen to leave yours too and ask him lol.

Answer 8

it really is often recommended to placed bottles of water on your flower beds because the water strikes about and reflects the rays of the solar, it really is meant to discourage cats and pigeons and does artwork to a pair volume yet they get used to it and ignore about them after a even as.

Answer 9

Definitely to trap earwigs.

Answer 10

cough medicine it's been said to attract snails, but that's folklore, maybe your neighbour is just a bit rare ...