Re: OT-CHAT: hot pepper

Linda, I have 40 LA irises planted for the LA Soc. convention next spring.   I
have really been trying to take good care of them, but last month something
started eating the leaves off of one of them.   It wasn't a bug, either.   I
put a tomato cage over it to try to stop the animal dining on a guest iris.
Well, it was a racoon, and it made him so mad that
I had covered up the only  iris with nice tender new leaves that the next
night he pulled up the next three in the row and dragged them out into the
alley.   I found them there the next morning, not eaten at all, just pulled
up.   Unfortunately, he didn't pull up the tags with them, so now I have three
that I'm not sure of the names until they bloom.   When I put them back in the
ground, I covered them with tomato cages also.   Thank heaven he gave up.   I
was running out of tom. cages, and had no hot pepper at all.
                                                Pat in Dallas

----- Original Message -----
From: Linda Mann
Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2003 6:46 PM
To: iris- talk
Subject: [iris] OT-CHAT: hot pepper

I had a dog once who used to steal eggs and eat them.  After trying all
sorts of tricks & minor abuse to get her to quit, I loaded one with
cayenne pepper & gave it to her.  Although she was suspicious, she took
it and reappeared with tears in her eyes.  She never ate another egg as
far as I know, but she didn't quit stealing them.  She took them and
buried them in the garden.  Nothing quite like rototilling a ripe egg...

I had another dog who liked jalapeno peppers (along with peppery
radishes and turnips).  He preferred his peppers cooked, tho liked the
other veggies raw.  He would run and sit by the row of radishes begging
me to pull a few for him.  Never could get him to keep out of the turnip
patch, but he learned that I could pick better radishes for him than he
could select on his own.

So maybe those squirrels just like the stuff?

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