Have You Noticed More Critter Damage This Year?

Nicholas plummer nickplummer@gmail.com
Fri, 24 Apr 2015 07:44:43 PDT
Like some others on the list, I had to resort to a deer fence to grow
anything.  After a lot of work, I think I have finally managed to exclude
bunnies by running wire rabbit fence along the bottom of the deer fence and
filling the gaps around the gates.  For the first time in several years, my
liliums and Muscari haven't been nibbled as they emerge.

That just leaves the effing voles to deal with. Every day, I seem to notice
more new holes.  Our cats stay indoors unless they are on a leash (coyotes
in the neighborhood), so its up to  the local snakes and owls to deal with
them.  They aren't doing enough.

Which reminds me:  I have some Eucomis bulbs to plant.  Do voles eat them?
If so, I'll put a lot of permatill in the holes.

Nick



On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 8:55 AM, Anne McNeil <amcdeubner@gmail.com> wrote:

> Deer have also eaten my azaleas and viburnums and tasted all sorts of other
> things, though they are leaving my roses untouched!
>
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 5:54 AM, Anne McNeil <amcdeubner@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I have more underground critters eating things they never touched before.
> > I am attributing this to the coyotes killing cats around my area, who
> > usually catch the gophers, moles and voles.  I hope your wrist is right
> now
> > and you can continue healing well.  It is no fun to have to work around
> > injuries!
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 5:28 AM, Judy Glattstein <jgglatt@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Some bulbs always get eaten - tulips. Some seemingly never get eaten -
> >> narcissus. This year, even though snow is gone and flowers are hurling
> >> themselves into bloom (and quickly vanishing again) I'm seeing some
> >> munching on plants I would no expect.
> >>
> >> Anemone - either A. flaccida and / or A. nemorosa 'Vestal' (they've run
> >> together.) Non-bulbous - Rhododendron yakusimanum has fuzzy undersides
> to
> >> leaves. Deer never ate - until this year.
> >>
> >> Anyone else seen his sort of thing?
> >>
> >> Judy in New Jersey where we've flip-flopped from oddly high 78 degree F.
> >> weather back to the more normal 50s
> >>
> >> Still the grumpy left-handed, one-fingered typist - orthopedist didn't
> >> like how my wrist had "settled." So after 28 days of knitting together
> he
> >> "unraveled" the bones and put in pins. Today is my first post-op visit.
> I'd
> >> cross my fingers for a good report but with only one working hand I have
> >> none to spare
> >>
> >>
> >>
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