Bulbs/squirrels
Posted By: no name on 2006-06-19
In Reply to: OT: Flower bulbs keep getting dug up - sm
I have tried tulips and crocus and the squirrels love them, but they do not like daffodils. There is a mixture you can get to plant with the bulbs that squirrels hate, also from what I understand from my neighbor they hate marigolds, he puts them around his vegetables to keep animals out/no fence. Cats will dig up lawns, dogs also will dig up flower beds. Oh, and skunks looking for grubs. I feel for you trying to plant something nice in a small space. You can try a little fence around the area or that, but if it is kids not taught to respect property, it won't matter what you do. Your local garden store or Home Depot should have something you can buy to put on your garden to keep pesty critters away without harming them. I have known people who have bought coyote urine and put that around their gardens because of damage due from deer/raccoons, etc.
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OT: Flower bulbs keep getting dug up
I live in a bad neighborhood on a fairly high-traffic corner. There is a little patch of ground outside my fence that I have been trying since spring to plant bulbs there, but they keep disappearing. First I tried tulips. They did start to bloom, and one morning they were all pulled out and scattered about the area. We do have a lot of squirrels around, so I blamed it on them not knowing at the time I planted that squirrels love tulip bulbs.
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Does anyone have any idea if it would be the local kids doing this or stray cats or dogs or what? I'm really getting a complex about this as this is my 3rd crop of bulbs! At any rate, I have given up on the flower bulbs and think now I will try to spread wildflower seeds and see if anything grows.
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You're supposed to plant them in beds and line the bed with chicken wire and then place the bulbs
on top of the wire and cover. This keeps the critters from getting to them, but is a lot of work.
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