RE: Winter survivors report

Title: RE: Winter survivors report

 The only defense against raccoons that has worked at all for us is a dog.  Raccoons are wily and persistent. 

-----Original Message-----
From: david feix
To: medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
Sent: 2/14/01 12:08 AM
Subject: Re: Winter survivors report

I was wondering how those people in the group
gardening in England have come through the winter so
far after the earlier bad freeze you received,
although 2 months may not be long enough to know the
survivors and losses...  We here in the San Francisco
Bay Area have just had a cold front from Alaska come
through which dumped 4 inches of snow in the Berkeley
Hills, and up to several feet in the Santa Cruz
Mountains, at a lowest altitude of approximately 800
foot elevation here in Berkeley.  I was rather
oblivious to this fact in my own flatland garden, as
there was not even any frost at sea level, and Tilden
Park in the Berkeley hills is only a few miles
distant.  I keep hoping that we will get through this
winter without a major cold spell, and so far have
been lucky.  However, the raccoons have more than made
up for my good luck with the lack of frost, easily
destroying more garden plants in one night than were
lost in our last major freeze of 1990.  Does anyone
have any sure fire remedies for keeping raccoons away?
 I'm tired of coming outside in the morning and seeing
my backyard full of bromeliads being treated like an
all you can eat salad bar...  Who knew that my local
neighborhood raccoons would develop a taste for only
the most colorful Neoregelias and Vriesias and chased
with a few Tillandsias and Aechmeas for dessert?  Hope
others aren't being tormented as well! 

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