On 7/3/2016 9:11 PM, Terry Coombs wrote:
songbird wrote:
Terry Coombs wrote:

Are not a good mix . Went out last night to water , found the tops
of many of the field peas nibbled off . I bought an electric fence
setup , but haven't taken time to install it . Gotta get on that
before they eat it all . I thought it was rabbits , but they don't
crop the tops . I was hoping they'd hold off until I pick the
blackberries , they're kinda crowding the tomato cages . Oh well ,
looks like I'll be losing some of those in the interest of saving
more important stuff . Not like the whole countryside isn't covered
with blackberry bushes , but these I've kinda kept cut back so I can
get at the fruit .

I'm also having a problem with probably armadillos , not sure how
to handle that short of a night or two without sleep ... I know
they're digging for worms and grubs , but they could find a better
place to do so . Found they've dug up a couple more pepper plants ,
a habanero and one other that I don't know the type , I just call
them hot red cones . I'm not sure if they'll respond to the 'lectric
fence or not . Gotta get the weedwacker fixed first and cut down the
vegetation where the fence will be . Tomorrow , today is "get the
washer and dryer moved" day .

groundhogs will also eat just the fresh tops
and leave the lower part alone.

we have a tall fence around the veggie garden
area (7-8ft).

i wish we'd put in a finer mesh down lower as
rabbits can sometimes get in, but so far this
year they are staying away. and the groundhogs
can also squeeze through when they are young. i
just plugged up their hole again.

likely culprits here for uprooting plants are
the skunks, raccoons or possums. we don't plant
any potted starts outside the fenced area because
they smell the fertilizers used and think there
are goodies down there... since we've switched
to doing that nothing outside is uprooted any
longer.

the chipmunks do some damage to the bulbed
plants at times. we have to trap them almost
continually.


songbird

Checked the garden a little bit ago to find one of the nicest sweet pepper
plants uprooted ... tonight I'll be setting the live trap I have on loan
from a neighbor . I suspect either possum or raccoon . It seems whatever it
is has the idea there's something good to eat under the plants where I mixed
manure into the soil as fertilizer .
Today's objective was acheived , the washer and dryer are in their new
room . Tomorrow it's 'lectric fence time .


First time I set out a trap to get whatever was going under my garden
fence I caught a skunk. I did not know how to handle them at the time
but now understand that they will not spray when confined and I could
have removed it to someplace else.

I've caught numerous groundhogs and raccoons in my Hav-a-hart trap but
wish I had the largest one as some raccoons get very large and my double
door trap will not hold them. I've had raccoons uproot plants.

Rabies is endemic around here and a woman was bitten last week a few
miles from here by a rabid raccoon so you have to be careful with
anything you trap.

Electric fence should work for deer. Friend had one around his garden
and deer did not trouble him.

Your electric fence should work for deer.