Re: something is eating my veggies!

My neighbor told me the other day she got out her binoculars and saw the
finches eating the blooms off of the apricot tree.  I have never heard of that
before. 
Tricia

--- On Tue, 1/6/09, Theresa G. <macycat3@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

From: Theresa G. <macycat3@sbcglobal.net>
Subject: Re: [CHAT] something is eating my veggies!
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Date: Tuesday, January 6, 2009, 9:39 PM

It would help so much if I could actually see some animal out there. It
is right out my kitchen window- so....
Theresa

Jesse Bell wrote:
> Sounds like rabbits to me.  They love all those foods you mentioned.  With
> four dogs outside, I don't have that problem anymore.  But, before
dogs, I
> have gone out to check on my winter veggies and seen that kind of
> damage..only to look out my window one morning and see three cottontail
> bunnies having breakfast in my garden.  D'OH!
>
>
>
> On 1/6/09, Aplfgcnys@aol.com <Aplfgcnys@aol.com> wrote:
>
>> Do you have woodchucks - groundhogs - whatever you call them?
>> They totally devoured my garden last year.  We thought we were
>> fenced, with chickenwire buried two feet down, but they found
>> a place where the old wire had rusted away. We tried several
>> times to fix it, but they got through each time.  Totally frustrating.
>> Hope you can get a better fix than we did
>> Auralie
>>
>> In a message dated 1/6/2009 1:27:36 AM Eastern Standard Time,
>> macycat3@sbcglobal.net writes:
>>
>> Ok- so at first I thought it was slugs eating my new little brocolli
>> plants.  Put down slug bait. No change.  Then my new little pea plants
>> were getting the leaves eaten off too-  maybe some insane caterpiller
>> than can live in the cold?  sprayed BT.  No change.  Then leaves off
>> mature pea plants and lettuce and spinach.  Now I think it must be a
>> 4-legged animal.  But what???  I've never caught/seen anything out
there
>> at all, except for little house finch and white crowned sparrows.  But
>> they don't eat plants, just bugs.  And it doesn't look like
bird damage
>> anyway.
>> Any idea or suggestions are greatly appreciated.  At this rate, I may
>> not get much to eat myself!!
>>
>> Theresa
>>
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