CULT: Critter Food

I have had squirrels dig up rhizomes and eat part of them. No lack of
squirrels here so must not hurt them. Most of the time they just dig them up,
a few of them they cut the roots off. Sometimes the same one 4 or 5 times. If
I can tell where they dug it up I replant it. Half the time I can not. I have
to throw it away. I pitch 5 to 15 every year.

Some times the eat the top of the rhizomes above ground. I have found rhizomes
6' up in the crotch of a tree. Once I found a daylilies growing in the
crotch.They also eat my tomatoes. One year I had a 3' iguana eating my
tomatoes. Found it dead under car where we had run over it.

At my last house I planted sweetcorn. I had a dog. I made the rows and planted
the seeds. For some reason I left before covering them up. I went back to
cover them, hurrying because it was time to go to work.

Two weeks later very few seeds came up. Humm bad seeds. Went to a different
place to buy more. Made the rows and put the seeds in. Went to get hoe to
cover them up and heard a crunching sound. My dog was eating the seeds.

Had a Pekinese that would eat anything. Got bit and cut getting broken pop
bottle out of her mouth. Would open cabinet door and get a onion and eat it.
Could pull up green onions to eat. I had to dig them to get them with out
breaking them off. Loved carrots and all fruits.

Never had dogs bother iris.

Mike Greenfield

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