Re: CULT: SOMETHING dug up my rhizomes last night!
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] CULT: SOMETHING dug up my rhizomes last night!
- From: g*@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 22:23:06 EDT
In a message dated 8/2/01 4:07:27 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
twinhill@earthlink.net writes:
>
> Has anyone ever had this problem? I guess its not really serious, but
> within my newly planted rhizome bed, last night something dug up
> about 6 of them and laid them on their sides! Well, at least whatever
> dug them up decided they weren't really that interesting after all,
> and left. No chews; none missing. Still, somewhat disconcerting.
> I hope that creature has got it thru its head that each rhizome is
> exactly as unappealing as the previous one...and perhaps tonight will
> move on to greener pastures.
> Or should I be thinking about some kind of deterrent??
Sometimes squirrels or ground hogs will do this. We have put up a 4 strand
electric fence around the garden (each strand about 6-8" apart). We had the
fence already from when we had a horse in the backyard temporarily.
RosalieAnn in southern MD, USA.
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