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Garden Pests
Deer, raccoons, crows, rabbits, and
other wildlife critters can be a gardeners nightmare. If you have a plan
that works and you would like to share it, please email me at hffinc@i-c.net
and I will post it.
Sweet Corn.
- Pat Hertzler: I have found that if I
put 4 posts, one at each corner of my patch and string twine around the
top of the post and then crisscross to form an X, the birds will think
it is a trap and will not come into the patch.
It is the only thing I have found to really work. After
the corn is 12 inches tall, I remove the post and twine.
- James J. Noel, Dept. of Chemistry, University
of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada, N6A 5B7:
I have heard that coons don't like wading through
pumpkins to get to corn, though I haven't tried it, since I would have a
hard time fully surrounding my corn with pumpkins. What has worked
for me is chicken wire. If you roll it out flat on the ground, deer
don't like to walk across it -I guess it gets between their hooves and
doesn't feel good. With coons, if you make a vertical fence with the
chicken wire, one that's not too high, so you can still step over it, and
if you leave the top of the fence floppy, the coons may try to climb it,
but the floppy top makes it difficult and unpleasant for them to climb, so
they don't.
The easiest, very effective way to keep away
coons, deer, rabbits, groundhogs, etc. that we have been using for the
last 7 years, is to put the doghouse (and it's occupant) near, but not in,
the vegetable garden all night, every night, when things are getting
ripe. I say not IN the garden -I learned the hard way that dogs like
to eat corn too, and they know how to pick it.....
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