raccoons
Jane McGary via pbs (Tue, 14 Jul 2020 10:33:41 PDT)

Thanks to Lee Poulsen for the ultimate raccoon solution. How lucky
gardeners are that some of us are engineers!

I haven't followed this thread much, but I thought I would note that
certain kinds of organic fertilizers attract carnivorous or omnivorous
animals. Bone meal and fish fertilizer are particularly likely to get
them digging -- and perhaps knocking over pots.

Now that I have no dog, I don't always close the gates into my back
yard, but losing some lily buds to deer have warned me to do so. Deer
ate all the flowering stems off the camas in the front garden this
spring. The gates keep out the raccoons too, I think. The only faunal
problem lately was hummingbirds flying into the bulb house while I had
the door open, and not being smart enough to fly back out through the
door. I have had to lure them out by hanging a tempting flower stalk
just outside the door.

Jane McGary, Portland, Oregon, USA

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