RE: Bulbs and Squirrels

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• Subject: RE: Bulbs and Squirrels
• From: "* D* <D*@gs.com>
• Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 09:54:35 -0400

Thanks Carl.  I'll get some chicken wire as soon as I can.

I appreciate the quick response.

Donna

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Carl Gustafson [SMTP:carl.gustafson@cbis.ece.drexel.edu]
> Sent:	Tuesday, October 20, 1998 9:54 AM
> To:	indoor-gardening@prairienet.org
> Subject:	Re: Bulbs and Squirrels
> 
> >Good Morning,
> >
> >I am a new, but obsessed gardener.  (It all started with indoor plants.)
> I
> >planted tulip and narcissus bulbs in my back yard about 10 days ago (I
> live
> >in Queens, NY), and discovered that squirrels dug up quite a few.   I am
> not
> >home during the day, so I do not get to see the damage right away.  Any
> >ideas on how to discourage such behavior without hurting the squirrels?
> 
> Plant bulbs, then about an inch above the tops of the bulbs, lay some
> chicken wire. Cover with soil, as usual. Squirrels will get down to the
> wire, but can't get past.
> 
> Use smaller wire (hardware cloth) for small bulbs.
> 
> Carl "Veteran of the Squirrel Wars, with scars to prove it" Gustafson

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