Labelling seeds Was: sowing Moraea seeds

Labelling seeds Was: sowing Moraea seeds
AW (Sat, 26 Nov 2011 13:50:49 PST)

Merci, Roland. I've tried that but I have far too many containers to
protect. I sought help from the Huntington Arboretum two years ago. Their
solution is useful only for small seedlings, far too small in scale.

The best solution I have found is building a barn owl house. A pair of those
owls will consume up to a thousand rodents per year. I don't know about the
accuracy of that number but they did reduce the rodent population in two
months to low levels. Trouble: barn owls are not long lived and move from
place to place. They have not yet movd back in.

Andrew
San Diego

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I know only a complicated solution
this works here against voles
I use 7 mm galvanized wire mesh
and make little baskets for my very rare bulbs

Roland

2011/11/26 AW <awilson@avonia.com>:

That's fine but what do you do when rats dig up the bulbs and spread
them among adjacent pots in the process? Labels may survive but the
identities have been mixed.

Andrew
San Diego

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On Behalf Of Jane McGary

Roland has plant show attendees moving his labels, and Randy has
banned small children. In addition to these nuisances, I had a flock
of crows invade a raised bed once, and they plucked out and tossed the
labels all about. Took me years to get the collection sorted.
After that I adopted Roland's "buried backup label" system, using the
seed pot labels for that purpose.

Jane McGary
Portland, Oregon, Usa

At 10:35 AM 11/26/2011, you wrote:

I like it.

I have banned small children from the collection. I once got a
collection of named Pacific coast hybrid irises totally scrambled by a
pair

of urchins.

Randy

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