Rodents
- To: perennials@mallorn.com
- Subject: Rodents
- From: "* M* P* <c*@mail.utexas.edu>
- Date: Mon, 06 Jul 1998 16:28:32 -0500
Since the amount of e-mails have slowed down a bit, I would like to tell a
funny story. I had a bowl full of assorted nuts in shells left over from
the holidays that I was tired of looking at, so I threw the nuts into my
yard for the squirrels. They landed about two feet from one of my flower
beds. I forgot that squirrels store nuts by burying them! Everyday there
are new holes in the flower bed that are very obvious because I have a
light colored mulch and of course the soil is dark where the squirrel has
buried the nut or dug one out for lunch. Luckily the flowers are not too
old so there is open space for the squirrel to dig. So far I have only lost
one balloon flower and two gomphrenas. I have used a dog & cat repellant in
the bed, and that works until it rains or I water. It just makes me laugh
that I sabatoged my own flower bed that way.
Claire
Zone 8
Austin, Texas
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