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Posted: Jul/25/2005 10:24 PM PST
I think it was the wabbits only because the teeth marks seem too big to be the chippies. I stocked up on mothballs on the way home tonight, so I'll distribute some after dinner. I'll put them in the beds I don't want them in, and leave the rest for them...hehehe....lol....yeah...righhhhhhht...leave them the weeds! |
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Posted: Jul/25/2005 10:36 PM PST
I was looking down on the east beds from the east balcony, and I spotted some critters moving in again, Time to put some more out, we have had rainstorms move thru everyday for the last 4 days, my moth balls are shrinking down. |
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Posted: Jul/31/2005 1:24 AM PST
Skunks are likely culprits. If you live trap and remove racooons you must move them far away, preferably with a large river between you and their new home. Yes, they can travel several miles back to where they've had good feeding. |
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Posted: Jul/31/2005 2:28 AM PST
This morning I was out watering my tomatoes, when the dang gopher comes out from under the shed, saunters over bold as brass to the tomatoes, picks a large green one and proceeds to sit there and eat it........within about 8 feet of me. |
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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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Posted: Aug/16/2005 1:30 PM PST
Here is a little trick my father in law showed me years ago... and it works! Actually, he gave me this "tip" to keep rabbits from eating my newly sprouted bean plants. Dust the plants with Ortho Seven dust... The bunnies don't like the dust and will leave the plants alone long enough for them to get past that tender stage where the rabbits like to nip them off... My wife has planted bulbs each season lately, and we have notice EXACTLY the same problem you have.. I gave the same thing a try, fairly heavily dusting the ground around where the bulbs were planted, and it stopped the problem... [B]One thing of note... I'm not huge on using any pesticide, and Seven is highly toxic to bees... I NEVER DUST ANYTHING WITH BLOOMS WITH IT... but using it in this way doesn't harm bees and does keep critters from messing things up... [/B] |
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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 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: 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: 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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