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Old 26-04-2010, 06:11 AM posted to rec.gardens
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Default What Animal Will Eat The Tops Off Onion Plants?

zxcvbob wrote:
EVP MAN wrote:
My neighbor planted some spring onion sets in his garden last week and
told me that something chewed the tops off of two rows. We live in town
and have rabbits, squirrels and every once in awhile a possum passes
through. I'm about to plant my own onion sets this coming week and this
has me a bit concerned. Does anyone know of any animal that will bother
onions???

Rich



Mine don't have tops yet; I just planted them a couple of days ago, very
shallowly with the tips of the bulbs sticking out of the ground.
Something dug most of them up and scattered them about last night. (I
bet it was a squirrel.)

Bob



I checked on the onions today and a few of them were dug up again
(grrr), but not the whole row this time. A robin flew away as I
went out there; I bet he was pulling them up and I just thought it
was a squirrel. And it might be a bird picking the tops off of
EVP's onions.

I replanted them again and covered 'em with a layer of corn straw
that had been used as chicken litter. The chickens pretty well
shredded it, and it had a lot of dust and some feathers in it but
not much poop so it shouldn't burn the plants.

Bob