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In article , gurdjieff 0f gormorrah
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Subject: So what all are people planting this spring?

Squirrels got every single crocus bulb I planted within 24 hours
from
when I
planted them. *******s.

Just a thought, flace, but you might try planting some Garlic cloves
on
top of the Crocus. The little buggers might not smell them with
Garlic
on top. :-)
P

That's a great idea, Phoenix, thanks.

I've got a bunch of garlic cloves to plant anyways. Perhaps I will do
that with the rest of my bulbs. Or at least some...

7 out of 10 Squirrels like garlic for an appetitzer pleasure before they
partake of crocus.I would suggest the use of land or trip mines
especially
very tiny bounching bettys.Then again , you might want to think in terms
of
constructing a medieval like moat around your garden. I do not think
that
catapults will be
nessecary especially if said moats are stocked with crocodiles or
piranha..
Just be sure to raise your draw-bridge immediately after leaving your
garden.

you're welcome [ in advance ]
The green gardener,
gurdjieff 0f gormorrah

-
theoneflasehaddock



You don't think this is a tiny bit over the top... Mostly moats were
built to keep humans out not Squirrels, and the cost involved would be
such that stocking your whole garden with bulbs for squirrels to eat for
the next hundred years might be slightly cheaper...
not that I want to put you down or anything, your ideas are very
imaginative... if somewhat insane...

insane? You want effective or you want to skimp on money , penny pincher?
We are talking crocus here ! This is the best cash crop since Zappa's
Montana dental floss ranch !!!

I bet you have a potato in a jelly jar growing a vine in ya
window, don't ya? Yeah, thought so. Leave the aricultural
advice to us experts and you amatrues stick to raising sea
monkeys and mildew.

l0v3,
gurdjieff 0f gormorrah

I came, I saw, and puked
--little oppie cunningham

Nothing wrong with Insane, who wants to be normal... but most of us
don't have the budget to build a moat around the house, Besides the
neighbours might complain. I do live in a semi-detached house.
I don't grow potato vines on the window sill, I have a greenhouse for
potato vines in jars... Orchids, and the like.
Ps most gardeners are insane, )

However you can check out the garden below

Ahhhh...my departed dear mother-in-law grew orchids. The sweet lady
also had a grocery store rubber tree she planted in the greenhouse
floor, had to keep topping it because it kept hitting the ceiling.
She also managed to get her bird of paradise to blossom consistantly.

I like orchids, and have several, I usually keep them in the house in
winter, and they go out in the greenhouse in spring.

Anyway, squirrels.
I have an ongoing battle on with squirrels. They are in my walls,
eating my plants, and driving the cats crazy.

Don't have a problem with them, though their are tons of trees around,
and I often see them, they never come into my garden, It might be
because I have always had an animal, a dog or cat, or both... Even when
I was in between pets they never bothered me.

The most satisfying solution is a waffle iron.

Knowing my luck, I would hit myself with it

Other than that, the best I have been able to do, is to plant
portugese hot peppers around and among my other plants.
See, the little blighters love peppers, the bell peppers are the very
first thing they eat when wandering into my garden. They are not so
good at differentiating between hot and sweet peppers either.
It is truly a sight to see when one of the buggers bites into one of
those hot peppers, they levitate about six feet straight up and then
roll around on the ground pawing at their mouths in a frenzy.

I don't think they learn very quickly if they keep coming back, if they
don't like smelly herbs, have you tried Fennel it looks lovely a tall
ferny plant and it smells strongly of aniseed, neither dogs nor cats
will go near it

The squirrels also seem to back off a bit if I plant the herbs among
the rest of the plants instead of in their own plot. Most of the
herbs I plant are very fragrant, so I imagine it is a smell thing.
St Johns Wort also puts them off somewhat, but that is only a
consideration if you don't have any grazing animals.

It could be a problem if you do have grazing animals, as I don't have
any trouble with squirrels or come to think of it rabbits in the house I
am in now, I don't have to worry about my plants, the only things that
can be a problem are birds if you are putting seeds straight onto the
ground... But again my dog is very territorial, and if the birds spend
long on the ground he is out the door and chasing them before they know
what's happening

NightMist

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Shez
Shez's Garden at http://www.oldcity.f2s.com/shez/