Audrey,

I understood what you said. From your explanation, it sounds just like what
the squirrels were doing to my tulips. Not saying this is definitely your
problem just this may be the same thing. Took me forever to catch them in
the act.

In the fall one year they took to taking one (and only one) bite out of each
of my full grown pumpkins. Now idea what caused them to do that. Made all
the pumpkins go bad before Halloween. From what I could tell, they only did
it one year. The next year they did it to one or two of the pumpkins, but
not the whole crop.


D~



"Audrey Copperwheat" wrote in message
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rosemarie face wrote:

I bet it's rabbits ! They eat my tulips all the time . Now they started
on my daylilies and the bachelor's buttons . It's driving me nuts ...
but there's nothing I can do .
Good luck !
Rosie z5

These aren't being eaten! they're just having the about-to-open tulip
buds chopped off and left lying on the ground.

Plus, I've always attributed clean diagonal cuts to rabbits. None of
these cuts has been diagonal. And none of my other types of flowers has
ever been bothered. [Geez... am I gonna *pay* for saying that? %-]