Re: garden critters

In a message dated 1/27/02 4:46:05 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
mygarden@easystreet.com writes:

<<  We don't have woodchucks/groundhogs here in my part of Oregon, but there
 are lots of other critters.  My biggest problem is raccoons, possums and the
 neighborhood cats that have overrun the place since my little Silky Terrier
 died.  He was an excellent mouser too.  The majority of gardens around these
 parts have a big problem with moles, gophers, and voles.  I count my
 blessings that they haven't found my garden - but I can't tell you why. >>

We have woodchucks from time to time.  Wen we manage to undo one resident 
another will usually move in as they seem to be territorial.  The don't both 
ornamentals much but will prevent a vegetable garden eating the entire garden 
 row by row.  We don't have a dog now either.  I think a small scrappy dog 
around a large garden is probably quite valuable.

Voles are never going to go away.  Lilies are the target here plus most other 
fleshy rooted plants and bulbs.  I don't plant expensive or choice lilies and 
I plant them all over the garden so that some will survive.

The only animal we actively deter is deer.  Without electric fencing there 
would be no garden.  

Somewhere there might be a place with perfect weather, sufficient rain, no 
humidity, no voles, chucks or deer, no mosquitoes or black flies no snow or 
ice and all four seasons in moderation.  Until then................

BTW, here in cold zone 4, with no frost in the ground yet, we have crocus 
sprouting near the foundations.  I have never seen this before.

Claire Peplowski
NYS 4

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