Re: tooting ones horn
- Subject: Re: tooting ones horn
- From: W*@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 23:51:55 EDT
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In a message dated 7/19/2002 8:00:59 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Phanteel@aol.com writes:
Its all due to a fuzzy grey creature who sits on my stoop and looks cute, and
begs. Its probably my own fault for feeding her, but darn it she always
looks so cute. Any suggestions for keeping them out of the patch. PLEASE,
NO suggestions that include killing the squirrels, I will do anything but
that. Thanks, Barbara
Barbara, as I see it you have a few choices.
First you can give the little guy more food than he can eat. You could buy a couple hundred pounds of corn at the closest elevator. The only problem with that is the little fuzzy guy will start bringing his friends.
Second you could live trap him and let him loose somewhere else but I still have a hard time believing that it was him. Rabbit, Wood Chuck or Deer I would believe!
Third is the one I suggested earlier. Sprinkle bone meal around the pumpkin and lightly dust the pumpkin and the leaves in the area of the pumpkin. Most critters that eat out of the garden do not eat meat (or bones), anyways it won't hurt your plants and may help you get thru the Boy These Things Taste Really Good stage.
Good Luck
Bill
PS. If if you put the bone meal on your pumpkins and something still eats them,
Stay Out Of The Garden!
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