[pbs] Rats vs rats
Thomas Glavich
tglavich at sbcglobal.net
Fri Sep 3 00:00:23 EDT 2004
I grow other South African plants and Cacti, and I have a real problem every year or two with rats eating Lithops and the less spiny cacti. They can devestate a collection in a single night. There is nothing worse than coming out in the morning, and seeing a bite taken out of a show plant. I have had rats eat parts of some Ornithogalum. They never seem to finish!
Tom
Susan Hayek <susanann at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
**Those rats that are really rats drive us crazy, scurrying about at night.
We've had no problems, so far, with bulbs being eaten.
We have had a problem with the bird feeding areas being hit nightly,
and I wonder about the tomatoes.
Are there any bulbs particularly affected by rodents? and are there
any particularly untasty?
We have such a bad gopher problem (Leon traps and traps; the dogs
generally have more success) that a lot of our plants are planted in
wire baskets.
>As a resident of Altadena, just north of Pasadena.
>
>Rats are Rats, and palms are notorious homes for them. Many palms
>have an ugly aluminum skirt about eye height to keep the rats out.
>Grey squirrels are here in abundance as well, but they don't seem to
>nest in palms much. I've seen them both running across the walls
>behind my house.
>
>We still have the sparrows, and in more recent times large flock of
>ferral parrots, screeching through the morning sky.
>
>Tom
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susan, who is.....
owned by Jasper & Schubert the Standard Poodles, Gracie the
Rhodesian, Pup-Quiz the Basenji and their Basenji brother, Jones....
on the North Coast of CA, USA
susanann at sbcglobal.net, copyright 2004
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