Re: Re: HYB: CULT: protecting seedlings from squirrels, cats, etc (& how labels get lost...)
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- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] Re: HYB: CULT: protecting seedlings from squirrels, cats, etc (& how labels get lost...)
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- Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 15:37:23 -0800
From: "Michael D. Greenfield" <redear@infinet.com>
> From: Sterling Okase <sterling_o@yahoo.com>
>
> Hi Talkers,
>
> To discourage the squirrels, I put all my pots of
> seeds in a flat and take another flat of the same size
> and turn it over onto the flat of pots of seeds. then
> I set them out and weight the corners down. I use
> flats that have the wide, open mesh bottoms. that way
> they can get rain and sun and they can sprout and grow
> through the wide mesh until transplant time.
>
> Sterling
I use plastic gutter guard. 4 holes 4 twisties and a piece of gutter gard
they cannot remove or get in. I use plastic shoe boxes for planting seeds,
It would work on 8" pots also.
Mike Greenfield
readear@infinet. com
Zone 5b USA SW Ohio on the southern most edge of Zone 5
Squiggles is blooming SDB Miller 1995
