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Gnome people invading garden

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GrandmaMaples Thu 05-Feb-26 08:53:45

This is my first post on this website, so hopefully this works. I am looking for some advice. Little gnome people keep crawling through the holes in my fences and gnawing at my daisies and pumpkins. No one believes me when I tell them, they think it's foxes, but I know those sneaky little buggers all too well, they're definitely up to something and I have to find out what, but no one I know will help me, so I came here in the case that someone has had a similar experience? Please share any solutions if so.

Oreo Sun 08-Feb-26 20:43:14

SORES

are any of them headless

Yes, and theyโ€™re the only ones who donโ€™t bite.

mae13 Sun 08-Feb-26 20:28:23

Allira

I enjoyed the David Bowie song and gnomistake. ๐ŸŽต๐ŸŽถ๐ŸŽต๐ŸŽถ๐ŸŽต

I wonder if David Bowie ever looked back and thought "yes, it was The Laughing Gnome that kick-started my fabulous career. Happy days!"

Casdon Sun 08-Feb-26 17:06:06

I think they hide in plain sight. By day, an innocent statue fishing in your neighbourโ€™s pond. Not everybody knows that, itโ€™s only on a need to gnome basis.

SORES Sun 08-Feb-26 17:05:30

are any of them headless

Oreo Sun 08-Feb-26 16:50:19

Check your sheds, they hide there during daylight hours, you know under that bit of sacking in the corner! Have an open dog cage at the ready and bundle them in, but watch out they bite!

Wyllow3 Sun 08-Feb-26 16:43:22

Gno way! Let them in my homeโ€ฆ.

mae13 Sun 08-Feb-26 15:01:19

Don't be fooled by their cute pointy hats and cheeky rosy faces. They are, deep down, black-hearted and the next thing to the Devil incarnate.

They'll assert Squatters Rights over the Wendy House if you give them half a chance.

Scribbles Sun 08-Feb-26 14:40:02

I have been told by a family member that, even more effective than a moggie, keep a grindlepig in the garden and the gnomes won't come near.

25Avalon Sun 08-Feb-26 10:38:27

Coopers of Stortford have a set of yoga gnome garden ornaments for sale at half price. Maybe buy a set so your gnomes feel at gnome?

ClicketyClick Sat 07-Feb-26 22:52:47

:51Allira

Then what? ๐Ÿ˜ฒ
Keep them indoors? Are they house-trained

Yes, and they will gnome school the GC

Retroladytyping Sat 07-Feb-26 19:28:47

I wonder if they are in league with the Borrowers. My secateurs, my favourite ones - the battered ones which only work when used by me, have disappeared - again!

Oreo Sat 07-Feb-26 18:58:48

They adore tulip bulbs in pots and you wonโ€™t know a thing until nothing grows๐Ÿคฌ

Scribbles Sat 07-Feb-26 18:54:51

If I have gnomes in the garden, I just let the cat out. One glimpse of her fangs and claws streaking across the patio and it's gnome contest, they're away to gnomemansland at the speed of light.

Squiffy Sat 07-Feb-26 16:50:20

Our lot have started using gnomatic drills to dig a tunnel under the fence. ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™€๏ธ

Basgetti Sat 07-Feb-26 16:17:03

Allira

I've had a complaint.

Apparently this thread is gnomist and is causing a great deal of stress to the gnome community.

Gnomatter. Freedom of speech and all that.

Basgetti Sat 07-Feb-26 16:15:29

Allira

๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚

Where's GrandmaMaples - she wanted advice about her problem and no-one is taking it seriously!
Her first post on GN too.

Gno idea.

Allira Sat 07-Feb-26 15:51:43

Then what? ๐Ÿ˜ฒ
Keep them indoors? Are they house-trained?

ClicketyClick Sat 07-Feb-26 15:49:52

Maybe put this game out in your garden for and while their occupied playing it catch them with some gnomemade traps

Wyllow3 Sat 07-Feb-26 15:10:11

๐ŸŽต๐ŸŽถ๐ŸŽต๐ŸŽถ๐ŸŽต Getting to gnome you.....๐ŸŽต๐ŸŽถ๐ŸŽต๐ŸŽถ๐ŸŽต

Allira Sat 07-Feb-26 13:06:48

I enjoyed the David Bowie song and gnomistake. ๐ŸŽต๐ŸŽถ๐ŸŽต๐ŸŽถ๐ŸŽต

Wyllow3 Sat 07-Feb-26 13:04:21

I bet there's more to come smile

Allira Sat 07-Feb-26 12:28:18

Brilliant, Wyllow! ๐Ÿ˜‚

Wyllow3 Sat 07-Feb-26 12:23:29

I've been eaten out of house and gnome, I tell you ๐Ÿ˜ฏ!

Wyllow3 Sat 07-Feb-26 12:12:57

David Bowie, 1967, the gnome song

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDJmRQ6LbZA&list=RDPDJmRQ6LbZA&start_radio=1

Allira Sat 07-Feb-26 12:10:33

Fairynuff, Wyllow ๐Ÿ‘