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Posted: Aug/16/2005 7:10 PM PST
Zana I am in Alberta and I have 3 resident Bush Bunnies and I control their dining by using Bonemeal around in the flower beds..They have never bothered any of my garden or flowers at all...oh no that isn't true...they dined on my cabbage plant that I had stuck in the back of a flower bed when I ran out of room in the garden..but that was my fault as there was a lot of dandelions ( their favourite) behind them..My biggest problem was deer until my hubby made our deer deterent out of a radio.. since then I have had no problems.. |
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Posted: Jul/07/2005 7:36 PM PST
Wow! I am so lucky we have all your wildlife here as well as foxes, bears, fishers etc. but nothing digs in my garden. Maybe it is because I have a dog. I don't want to tempt fate so I am touching wood as soon as I finish this. |
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Posted: Aug/19/2005 1:54 PM PST
Zana I had problems with wabbits when i first moved here. Got some fox urine. Just a few drops where i didn't want them dining seemed to work just fine. caz |
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Posted: Aug/19/2005 6:02 PM PST
You don't want to stick your nose in it, ( get someone to take a pic if you do ) but once you put a few drops where your plants are you, probably won't notice it at all, but the wabbits will. Course you have city raggits. They may not know to fear fox scent. Check out this site. http://www2.yardiac.com/long.asp?tgs=14796671:4 6526917&cart_id=2417463:145846998691&item_id=1009< /u> |
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Posted: Jul/07/2005 2:55 PM PST
or at least trying to. it keeps digging around them, in a bed i just planted!! argh.... now, here's who and where i am. setting: country-ish, zone 6(a) (ohio). the likely culprits include (but are not limited to): deer, chipmunks, raccoons, opossums, cats, dogs, moles, voles, groundhogs. whew. any ideas would be great. i already have trapped (and released - far away on some other property which we have) 2 raccoons, we have shot 3 squirrels, now we're thinking about neighbors cats and dogs. deer also seem to really like my hostas, which aren't all that far away. voles and moles really like sedum, also not far away. opossums and groundhogs, i'm not sure about. help. thanks, dave |
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Posted: Aug/16/2005 6:56 PM PST
I guess I am lucky. Not damaging so we encourage wildlife. We have lots and lots of birds, bunnies and turkeys. Here is one picture. Attachments:  |
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Posted: Aug/16/2005 11:33 PM PST
Kinnika, thanks for the tip about the bonemeal. I did try the mothballs. And when the dogs came home with the parental units, I collected all of them up into an empty plastic pot and set it on a table near my tomato plant containers. Now the mothballs are off the ground and out of reach of the dogs, and other animals, but the faint smell is still strong enough to ward them off. Mr. Groundhog/Gopher hasn't been seen in more than 2 weeks and I'm grateful. I'm finally getting to eat my tomatoes because it was taste testing all it could reach. Grrrrrrrrrr.... I will try the bonemeal in the rosebed.......along with all the marigolds. The marigolds have pretty much "carpeted the ground around the roses now...even filling in what was nibbled on earlier. Thankfully most of my tomato plants are in containers and on a second floor deck...out of reach of the varmits.....grrrrrrr....lol. The trade off there is that with over 120 plants in containers up there on the deck, and no hose.....its allot of slugging to water them all. |
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Posted: Jul/07/2005 6:06 PM PST
how big are the 'dig' holes? skunks will make a mess...coons, too. i don't have groundhogs so don't know what they'll do as far as damage. something has been poking around in one of my beds but the holes are small. i'm thinking squirrels? |
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Posted: Aug/19/2005 2:14 PM PST
Quote: Originally posted by cazimere ZanaI had problems with wabbits when i first moved here. Got some fox urine. Just a few drops where i didn't want them dining seemed to work just fine. caz Caz, Sounds ok, but how aromatic is it to humans and where does one get it? I live in the city, so foxes are not exactly running around in abundance (which is good for them and me, I think) Zana |
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Posted: Jul/31/2005 2:31 AM PST
Oooooops....anyway I turned the hose on the dang thing......then started cracking open the mothball boxes I bought the night before. I have a question though about using them......how safe is it to put them in the soil near where vegetable or fruit plants are growing? I'm worried about contaminating the soil. I don't mind scattering a few around the outside of container saucers, but I'm not sure about putting them that close to the tomatoes and beans. (It's already decimated most of the other veggie seedlings.) |
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