Suggestions for Deterring Critters from Feasting on Flowers?
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Comments (8)I just started using "I Must Garden" rabbit repellant made locally here in Chapel Hill, but available online. It's working very well for me with the rabbits. I have deer, but since I plant deer resistant plants, I don't use a repellant for them. For Japanese Beetles, I mix Neem Oil with bio-soap and water and spray on the leaves. I trim off the blooms during JB season since I can't spray the blooms (I have Knock Out roses, so they bounce right back). Cameron Here is a link that might be useful: I Must Garden repellants...See MoreLarge dense rose bushes to deter dog from digging out?
Comments (17)The rose bush you want is The Fairy. I also have rescued dogs and I have a beagle mix that has done hundreds of dollars of damage to my garden digging. She won't mess with The Fairy though. It's a beautiful low sprawling bush that bursts with pale pink flowers all summer and fall. She has about a billion really mean thorns. Shes a landscape rose and keeps those thorns low and dense. Better yet she will put down babies that take root and grow where her branches touch the ground. Fortunately she is almost disease free and you don't have to prune her. She's shade tolerant, thrives on neglect and did I mention that she's almost constantly in bloom from June until hard frost? Since she's low you can put her in front of climbers to fill out the area. Cassie is also an escape artist and I had her microchipped. I would suggest you do the same (along with an identification tag.) That way if the little darling gets out you have a good shot at getting her back.' Here is a link that might be useful: The Fairy Rose...See MoreOregon Spring, Vol 2. Unexpected Feasting - and daylight fest of
Comments (3)Those spring buggers pretty much *decimated* several flats of tender seedlings that I'd set out to harden off. They ate all curibits and punkins to a nub, Most everything disappeared virtually overnite! Newbie, do not succumb to thinking they are Cute. Lacking other predators - it's kill-or-Consequenseces. This time it's serious. Do not be fooled! It's now fall, and THAT means it's Slug-egg-laying season. As if that wasn't bad enough, the BIG boy hermaphrodites are having orgies on my property, and WORSE - they also out there devouring my WISC 55 tomatoes, just before they turn ripe. I'm drawing a line. Time to get out the Sluggo and dust the perimeter. I hope it's not too late, as I'm planning for more Dahlias in Spring, and I *insist* on a more diverse palate of veggies next season. The buggers got my multi-color eggplant & pepper seedlings, Okra and much more. I *will* win in '06! Hey mindsmile: Thanx for the Slug-bait recipe! I'm a cheapo & prefer not to buy bait, but I'm also among the many Oregonians who think using a decent microbrew on depraved Slugs is nothing short of Alcohol Abuse. No matter how gratifying it is to discover 5-6 bodies dead in one's pool of beer, that method just doesn't cut it in a prolific organic garden with ample mulch, compost and planting (er, Slug-birthing) mounds. Slug-Death it is. Survivors however, do have permission to winter over in my compost piles. By Spring, however, it's Last Rites for Sluggo. I'll be back....See MoreWhat kind of critter eats flowers?
Comments (10)I have a critter doing the same to my 2 year asparagus plants, stems are cut off 4" to 6" high and only the very tops of the fern are gone leaving most of it on the ground. Thing is the asparagus is in a deer and rabbit proof fence and no foot tracts are ever found, even after a good rain. Now I have a another plot with strawberries, asparagus and garlic with no fence where deer & rabbits graze at will, but the guilty critter is confirmed with foot tracks, but no tracks in this plot either on the severed ferns. So what is it? Tracks confirm Deer top off big and small plants but eat the entire thing to the point it stops. Rabbits do the same thing as high as they can reach but leave larger plants alone. I've been watching this topic for the mystery critter not really knowing what It may be. But now I believe Marie is correct, squirrels. No tracks but they're light, so no smoking gun and only circumstantial evidence, they are now my top suspect. After watched baby squirrels, never the adults, chew off and discard my new oak leaves and then eating just the new stem growth (I think), and after reading the first spring is the hardest on new squirrels looking for food I'm just assuming they are desperate. Never had the problem with baby squirrels because I never had them, a neighbor was killing every one he could for 20 yrs, he stopped and I don't mind them.....I think....See MoreRelated Professionals
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