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Strawberry pests
Does anyone know if planting onions in with strawberries will keep certain nocrurnal mammals from feeding on the berries? |
Strawberry pests
Planting garlic or onions will not deter animals from feeding on your
strawberries. The Allium family (garlic/onion) usually helps somewhat in repelling certain insects. Can you possibly fence or net the area, or is it too big an area? You could try hot pepper spray, but I'm not sure if the hot flavor would affect the taste of the strawberries. I also sprinkle crushed red pepper in flower beds to repel squirrels from chewing. It has been effective in the past. Wish I could come up with a great suggestion, but this is all I can think of at this moment. Penny Zone 7b-North Carolina "James Mayer" wrote in message ... Does anyone know if planting onions in with strawberries will keep certain nocrurnal mammals from feeding on the berries? |
Strawberry pests
I guess that the only real solution is to trap the critter and have it relocated somewhere out in the sticks. On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 15:57:58 GMT, "Penny Morgan" wrote: Planting garlic or onions will not deter animals from feeding on your strawberries. The Allium family (garlic/onion) usually helps somewhat in repelling certain insects. Can you possibly fence or net the area, or is it too big an area? You could try hot pepper spray, but I'm not sure if the hot flavor would affect the taste of the strawberries. I also sprinkle crushed red pepper in flower beds to repel squirrels from chewing. It has been effective in the past. Wish I could come up with a great suggestion, but this is all I can think of at this moment. Penny Zone 7b-North Carolina "James Mayer" wrote in message ... Does anyone know if planting onions in with strawberries will keep certain nocrurnal mammals from feeding on the berries? |
Strawberry pests
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003 01:46:27 GMT, Repeating Decimal
wrote: in article , James Mayer at wrote on 2/25/03 6:41 AM: I guess that the only real solution is to trap the critter and have it relocated somewhere out in the sticks. On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 15:57:58 GMT, "Penny Morgan" wrote: Planting garlic or onions will not deter animals from feeding on your strawberries. The Allium family (garlic/onion) usually helps somewhat in repelling certain insects. Can you possibly fence or net the area, or is it too big an area? You could try hot pepper spray, but I'm not sure if the hot flavor would affect the taste of the strawberries. I also sprinkle crushed red pepper in flower beds to repel squirrels from chewing. It has been effective in the past. Wish I could come up with a great suggestion, but this is all I can think of at this moment. Penny Zone 7b-North Carolina "James Mayer" wrote in message ... Does anyone know if planting onions in with strawberries will keep certain nocrurnal mammals from feeding on the berries? Forget the relocation. The critter is probably edible. Eat it. Cooking is optional. Look at the name of the newsgroup. Anyone have a good receipe for 'possum or 'coon then? |
Strawberry pests
(James Mayer) writes:
Anyone have a good receipe for 'possum or 'coon then? I haven't tried them, so I don't know how good they are, but here are a few: Basic Coon Cut up, boil in water with a little salt until tender. Place in shallow pan, sprinkle with a little sage, add one cup broth. Pre-cook about 5 medium size sweet potatoes, cut in half and place around coon. Bake in hot oven for 20 minutes. --------------------------- Old-Fashioned Coon Put one coon in salt and soda water and let stand overnight. Take out of water next morning and wash two times and put in kettle and boil until tender. Put in a bread pan and put pepper and sage on it and bake. Serve with sweet potatoes. --------------------------- Coon and Dressing Cut coon into small pieces and salt to taste. Cook in the inset pan of the pressure cooker for about an hour at 15 lb. pressure. Cook longer if it is an old and tough coon. When coon is tender, arrange pieces in a baking dish and cover with dressing made as follows: Moisten 8-10 slices of dry bread with the juice cooked from the coon and add 2 eggs, 2 T. sage, 1/2 tsp. ground cloves, and 1 T. salt. Bake in oven at 350 until the dressing is browned. This assures a tender, tasty coon without being too fat and greasy. Also good for possum. [ Recipes taken from _Flat-out Dirt-cheap Cookin'_ by Bruce Carlson. ] -- Aaron |
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