Here’s a shot from our brand-new garden last week.
Well, here it is now:
Yes, fortification became necessary. Our precious babies need to be protected from the predators that roam our neighbourhood at night. I came out one morning this week to see every bush – except the tomatoes; apparently possums don’t like them – ravaged. Our poor strawberry is just a little stem poking out of the ground.
As I’ve said, I’m pointing the finger at our local possum population.
Why?
Because of this possum-sized bulge in the wire.
(You can’t quite see from the top photo but there’s a depression in the top, so they drop through there and exit out the side. The buggers.)
So this weekend Adam will erect a more permanent means of keeping our babies safe. All reasonable suggestions and advice will be gladly taken.
7:05 am
Oh geez, can I relate! We live in the country, so it’s a constant battle. Although our problems usually rest more with raccoons and deer than possums.
With smaller predators (rabbits, squirrels, etc.) what works well for us is a rubber snake (seriously!) tossed into the middle of the garden. They see it and head for the hills. But for possum, I’d suggest a light rigged to shine over your garden at night. Being nocturnal, possum hate light. You’d just want to point it downwards so it’s bathing your veggies in light, but not disrupting the nightime flow of the whole yard lol it keeps ‘em at bay around these parts
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8:13 am
Snakes – good idea, I’ve haerd that one before.
As for lighting, we’ve tried that trick before in our endless turf wars with the possums (oh, it s a saga) and now they just shrug it off, couldn’t care less. But I will give those snakes a try I think, thanks!
9:53 am
Kill the possum? No?
Blood and bone hung from a stocking will deter possums. They don’t like the smell. And if you hang it from a sock or stocking, when it rains (or when you water) it will fertilize the garden.
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10:58 am
Oooh – I like Veronica’s suggestion.
We are lucky – we are more likely to get the snakes by nature than the possums.
Snakes don’t each as much produce.
However – snakes scare the fertiliser out of me.
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1:38 pm
Shove some of those cheap solar garden lights around the edges (about $20 for 6 at the Reject Shop) and put up chicken wire.
Don’t know if it’s available yet but they’re producing artificial dingo wee to scare possums, wallabies and ‘roo’s off from gardens and forest areas.
Read it HERE
Not much else works.
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2:48 am
Good luck. I’m checking back to see what people suggest. I have a problem with something digging up all my spring flowering bulbs. I think it’s squirrels.
3:48 am
I have always wanted to catch a wild animal in the act of destroying a garden, so I could be like HA!, and I could watch the animal jerk around with food sticking out of its mouth, eyes wide. But kind of like a character from Over The Hedge.
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7:49 am
You’ve got it well protected against nature!
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7:53 am
V – that is a great suggestion thank you!
Well my short term plan has been to put an upside down bucket over the top of the plants with a brick on top of a nighttime then remove it of a daytime until we fix up the cage properly.
11:07 am
Mole are a pest for our garden & annoying like possums. Ever since me and my hubby celebrated our 10th anniversary and he bought me a gorgeous pair of diamond earrings from http://www.idonowidont.com I bought him some new garden tools.
Hopefully he can figure out how to get rid of these annoying moles with them because they are screwing up the strawberries we’re growing!
1:26 pm
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