RE: Rodents

HA!  Claire,

My mom just flew up to visit from Galveston... She was complaining that
up until a couple of weeks ago, they were in a world of hurt due to lack
of rain.  She was on red alert where the squirrels were concerned.  They
were digging in her huge patio pots all along the porch to bury the
pecans.  Apparently the ground was so hard, they wouldn't dig there.
She lost a ton of flowers to these guys! <g>

neens

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Claire M. Palitza [SMTP:cpalitza@mail.utexas.edu]
> Sent:	Monday, July 06, 1998 2:29 PM
> To:	perennials@mallorn.com
> Subject:	Rodents
> 
> 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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