TotallyHomey wrote:

My wife says the neighbor is stealing her hollyhocks. She is
probably
correct. The holes are clean, like from an English hand
trowel, no
foot prints around them. What is left of her seedlings in a
hole
2"wide by 3" deep. They were randomly planted amidst
scattered other
species. My wife is not into symmetry. So... if they were
stolen by
a human, the thief had to know exactly what the baby plant
looks like.

I read somewhere that baby plants are eaten down by rabbits
but they
do not dig holes. Red and gray squirrels eat bulbs .. not
rooted
planted as best I can tell.

So .. it seems there is an 80% chance she is correct and
maybe
there is a 20% chance squirrels are doing it, but do not leave
digging
mounds and not tracks?

i'm not sure if you are
planting these in plain dirt
or using a potting mix with
any kind of additives/fertilizers
(bone meal, fish emulsion, blood
meal, etc).

but raccoons, skunks, oppossum,
voles, etc. will think they are digging
for a tasty treat and some will eat
whatever they dig just because...


songbird