squirrels in pots

[Henry Fieldseth]

Joyce,

Squirrels digging in pots is a major problem here in
the midwest as well.

I have had good luck with poultry grit which is
chipped up granite, or other hard rock, that farmers
feed to chickens.

I just cover the potting soil with a layer of grit and
it seems to discourage the squirrels. I think they
like to dig in recently disturbed soil and don't
notice it through the grit. Just a theory but it seems
to work.

--Henry
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, Zone 4-5


--- Joyce Miller <onager at MIDTOWN.NET> wrote:
> Dear Adam and George,
>
>          Every gardener has problems.  For a friend
> in France, it is mice
> who burrow in his raised beds and eat his bulbs;
> for another it is
> crows/ravens that steal name tags.  For me it is
> squirrels who bury nuts in
> seedling pots.  They seem to know which are the most
> select of the
> select.  What has this to do with normal weather?
> Nothing.
>          While our winters are so mild and fairly
> dry, we can grow
> oncocylous iris in the ground here, it is our
> summers that are a
> problem.  Many plants cannot stand our dry sustained
> heat of consecutive
> days of over 100 degrees F.  I don't do well either
> for that matter.
>
>          From your and George's answers, I have
> choices.  Think I will try
> forcing.  Previously, I had plunged pots outside for
> the winter.
>          Thanks,
>
>
> Kind regards,  Joyce Miller, Sacramento, CA, USA
> USDA Zone 9A
> Responses may be sent to:
> mailto:onager at midtown.netes may be sent to:
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