I no longer bury crushed egg shellin the media I use for potted plants: it's a sure raccoon magnet aroundhere. And local gardeners on another list assure me it’s a waste of timeif the intention is to raise the calcium level in the soil.
Last night while reading Lee's post(my computer is just outside the kitchen, the kitchen opens out to a deck) Icould hear some noises in the kitchen over near the door. I got up quietly,enough to get a view of that end of the room, and there was a young raccoon inthe kitchen giving me the "what time will dinner be served tonight?"look. Of course, I was ensorcelled and checked the fridge for left overs.
Mom brought the young ones up lastweek and they got into everything. Something, one of them almost certainly, bitthe pseudostem of my Worsleya off leaving a four inch stub sticking out of theground. I'm trying to decide if that is a capital crime. Maybe it waspayback for the raccoon hat I had as a kid: the things we used to do.
Jim McKenneyMontgomery County, Maryland, USA, USDA zone 7 where I'm not proud of my Davy Crockett days.
On Tuesday, July 14, 2020, 01:16:34 PM EDT, Jane McGary via pbs <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote:
Thanks to Lee Poulsen for the ultimate raccoon solution. How lucky
gardeners are that some of us are engineers!
I haven't followed this thread much, but I thought I would note that
certain kinds of organic fertilizers attract carnivorous or omnivorous
animals. Bone meal and fish fertilizer are particularly likely to get
them digging -- and perhaps knocking over pots.
Now that I have no dog, I don't always close the gates into my back
yard, but losing some lily buds to deer have warned me to do so. Deer
ate all the flowering stems off the camas in the front garden this
spring. The gates keep out the raccoons too, I think. The only faunal
problem lately was hummingbirds flying into the bulb house while I had
the door open, and not being smart enough to fly back out through the
door. I have had to lure them out by hanging a tempting flower stalk
just outside the door.
Jane McGary, Portland, Oregon, USA
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