Re: Animals digging up bulbs
- Subject: Re: Animals digging up bulbs
- From: B* C*
- Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 21:34:33 -0400
Claire:
The answer is more cats. I have seven, plus a few belonging to local farms
that drop by to use the cat door, and pick up a quick snack. (So did a
couple of skunks, but that's another story). They do bring in the odd bird
(mostly starlings) but dozens of mice, voles, chipmunks and squirrels (and
at least once a year a weasel). I never lose crocus, tulip or lily bulbs to
pests.
Bob Campbell
>From: ECPep@aol.com
>
>So...........if you put in a dozen tulips somewhere in the garden, put a
>board, a few bricks, a cardboard box with some stone, anything to disguise
>the area. If you live in the north, the ground will freeze and you can
>take
>away the debris and the bulbs will not be touched - the first year. If you
>have especially smart squirrels, they will dig up the bulb in the spring
>when
>the shoot appears but usually not.
>
>Now that I have a large country garden, I do not plant tulips. I plant
>some
>crocus knowing they are an easy target. I lose most bulbs over time to
>rodents. Once in a while I replant a bunch of them but they are not
>forever.
> Camassia seems to survive.
>Claire Peplowski
>NYS z4
>
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