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David Hare-Scott[_2_] · 11-06-2014, 12:52 AM posted to rec.gardens

wrote:
BooHoo,

Last year was the first year for my peach tree to bear fruit and it
did, many, many peaches. This year there would have been even more,
but in one night (it seems) they were all gone.

My neighbor claims it is raccoons, but I can't be sure. We have a
plum tree on the other side of the house that has always been left
alone.

What can we do? We had raccoons under the deck one year and played
rap music (!), and put rags soaked in ammonia under there and they
left, but that won't work with this tree. Or would it?

TIA,

Julie

I don't have raccoons but I do have possums (not opossums). A possum is
smart, strong, agile climber, dedicated to the task of getting your fruit
and with good teeth. Is that like a raccoon? If so only wire mesh that
they cannot chew through or electric tape that they cannot get past will
keep them off ripe fruit.

D