Re: Questions and New Critter story.... bear in my garden.

I also can relate to the bear story! I lost one of my biggest pumpkins last
year to a black bear. He or she clawed a hole in the side of the pumpkin and
scooped out all the insides of the pumpkin.
So for the rest of the season, I put a old radio out at the patch, and  made
my husband urniate close to patch!

So far this year haven't seen the trouble making bear!!!

Kim
Northwestern Ontario

----- Original Message -----
From: <mwronski81@attbi.com>
To: <pumpkins@hort.net>
Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 7:24 PM
Subject: Re: Questions and New Critter story.... bear in my garden.


> I just noticed this email about bears......
>
> Believe it or not, I had a bear in my garden the summer of 1997, it even
> made the local news.  It was supposedly a mother bear with her cubs, she
had
> been spotted in my town and few of the surrounding towns.  I happened upon
> her while going to my compost bin which was behind a 8 foot high solid
wood
> fence,.... I was walking to the bin when I looked up and 'she' looked up
at
> me, she was standing up and leaning into my compost bin as she ate
pumpkins
> that I had thrown away, (back then I wasn't using any harmful chemicals,
so
> the pumpkins were safe) she didn't even flinch and kept eating, I did
flinch
> big time as I was within 8 feet of her before I even noticed her, she
never
> made a sound ....it makes a nice story.  That was my 2nd year of growing
> AG's and the pumpkin which was growing near my compost bin grew to 552lbs.
> You may call me escentric, but I had put out a radio and left it on 24
hours
> a day for 2 months... (in a waterproof enclosure) right next to that big
> pumpkin, this was my bear scare tactic.  It worked, my big pumpkin that
year
> was never touched and probably the best looking pumpkin that I have grown
to
> date.
>
> Sterling, MA
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <BChris1335@aol.com>
> To: <pumpkins@hort.net>
> Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 6:25 PM
> Subject: Re: Questions and New Critter story
>
>
> > Dale,
> >     Refresh my memory, where do you live that you have bears in your
> patch.
> > Pretty neat sighting
> > Brian
> >
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