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Deer and gardens
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. |
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