Squirrels were stealing my tulips and planting conkers in the pots as a swap. I cut a piece of kitchen wire just smaller than the top of the pot, placed it on the compost and added more to hold it down . It worked but after flowering it was a problem detangling the leaves from the chicken wire.
I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
We have the blackbirds always digging into pots and throwing the compost all over. Have had to put nets over pots to allow the plants to become more established so that the birds don't pull not just the compost out but the plants.
Squirrels for bulbs, raccoons for fresh compost added)) methinks they think there’s some food for them there … started to put river rock in pots lately and fill up gaps with gravel . Only for bulbs though, as they will be stored elsewhere later this year away from hot sun so rocks don’t bake the bulbs ))) bulbs woke up this year, so looks like it’s been working this time around
Don't have too much trouble with racoons here Rats, cats, foxes, squirrels, voles, the dog, blackbirds, mice and voles. But no racoons. As they say, things are never so bad that they couldn't get worse
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
I had a similar problem with foxes Rosie, I thought it was cats at first until I remembered refreshing the compost in my herb pots and adding a bit of BF&B. Must have been irresistible to the fox who just made a mess!
Blackbirds have wrecked my pots so I have netted them ,they also pulled out all my lettuce seedlings ,I wouldn’t mind if they ate them but they just chuck them all over and by the time I find them they’re dead. They pulled out my lavender too .Help the wildlife? Seems to me they help themselves,little b….gers !
Not very considerate to use abbreviations when most novice are not privy to the lingo. “Here is an important step. CUGWIT”
use your words like an adult
BFB stands for Blood, Fish and Bone. A basic fertiliser which is often used during Autumn as a slow release fertiliser on borders and raised beds, You can also use it to add to sterile top soil when making up a decent planting medium. Perhaps you too could act as an adult and rephrase your query so that posters understand your query. CUGWIT ?? Maybe you could explain your abbreviation too ? Fairs fair - you now know what BFB stands for.
What a rude comment @wanderingnomad1981 ! You could simply have asked what it meant. I think you could also listen to your own advice and behave like an adult.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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I cut a piece of kitchen wire just smaller than the top of the pot, placed it on the compost and added more to hold it down . It worked but after flowering it was a problem detangling the leaves from the chicken wire.
started to put river rock in pots lately and fill up gaps with gravel . Only for bulbs though, as they will be stored elsewhere later this year away from hot sun so rocks don’t bake the bulbs ))) bulbs woke up this year, so looks like it’s been working this time around
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Perhaps you too could act as an adult and rephrase your query so that posters understand your query.
CUGWIT ?? Maybe you could explain your abbreviation too ? Fairs fair - you now know what BFB stands for.
You could simply have asked what it meant. I think you could also listen to your own advice and behave like an adult.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...