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- From: "Dianne Stephany" <iluvdanc@rochester.rr.com>
- To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: [NAFEX] squirrels, again
- Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 09:00:10 -0500
Title: My VistaPrint Electronic Business Card
HI,
I just read the post about squirrels eating the
pits and nuts that had been platned. I thought I would post something that
I tried so that someone else would NOT try it.
We had squirrels digging up and eating or carrying away anything and
everything that was planted this past fall . I guess they were that
hungry. I found some tulips that were the kind my Mom used to have
and wanted them badly. So, knowing how much squirrels love bulbs and
that they are vegetarian- I put dried porcine blood around the bulbs
and in layers above the bulbs as I covered them with dirt. No squirrels,
but .... a several mornings in a row I came out very early and
found the redug hole with the dirt piled around the top of the
hole and the bulbs either squarely in the center of the hole
or out of the hole scattered around. SKUNKS. The skunks were hungry
too, and being good carnivores they probably figured that what had
bled all that blood was an animal that was going to be good to eat.
They had kept digging till the blood scent led them
to the bulbs. Which they were not interested in. I guess I got to the
bulbs before the squirrels made their rounds and reburied them, several
times. After a rain the skunks quit digging them up. I don't know if
the bulbs will make it or not.
So do not put dried blood around things to keep the squirrels away if
you also have skunks.
Dianne Stephany, Rochester NY, zone 5
sleeting for 2 hrs now and expecting 6-8 inches of snow before days
end
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[NAFEX] squirrels, again,
Dianne Stephany, 02/01/2008
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