[Arisaema-l] A. sikokianum persistence

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I had no idea the little b**tards ate arisaemas... they've done me out of plenty of other plants, but mainly in the winter.  This year I went to the Dollar Store and bought them out of wire trash cans and wire baskets... put them over the plants when they went down and into the soil about an inch - pinned all the way around with landscape pins.  So far, it seems to have worked - BUT, I only protected the plants I knew they would eat - hostas, ensata and pseudatas.  


Kathy Guest Shadrack
Smug Creek Gardens
www.smugcreekgardens.com
 



-----Original Message-----
From: Don & Liz <lizndon at mchsi.com>
To: Arisaema Enthusiast Group (AEG) Discussion List (and other hardy Aroids <arisaema-l at science.uu.nl>; Barry Yinger <barryyinger at gmail.com>
Sent: Thu, Apr 19, 2012 2:57 pm
Subject: Re: [Arisaema-l] A. sikokianum persistence


Barry,


There may be something to that;  in my garden I have extensive plastic vole barriers (really necessary with my very loose soil and being a woodland garden). I dug two foot deep trenches around many of my flower beds and buried a barrier of thick plastic sheeting in the trench. In addition at intervals in the beds themselves, I pounded in pieces of plastic edging so they're just below the surfacer. I still get voles, but not nearly as bad. My garden is an acre, and I put a six foot deer fence around the whole thing; the deer could still jump it so I went back and added a wire all around it at 7 feet. Then groundhogs were digging under the fence, so I trenched the entire perimeter and buried another foot deep wire fence. Then little bunnies were in the spring crawling through the square openings in the wire fence, so I added a two foot rabbit fence at the bottom. Then moles were digging under the groundhog fence and coming into the garden, plus voles were chewing everything up, so I went back, as mentioned above and dug the two foot trench around much of the garden and put in the plastic. SO... I have a six foot deer fence, a seven foot deer wire, a foot deep buried groundhog fence, a two foot tall rabbit fence, and a two foot deep buried mole/vole barrier. Then I accidentally leave a gate open and a whole herd of deer come in and eat everything in sight. Sigh... 

On Apr 19, 2012, at 5:07 AM, Barry Yinger wrote:


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