Re: outdoor bogs

Rand Nicholson (writserv@mi.net)
Thu, 13 Jun 1996 11:46:00 -0300

>>
>>Wait until they start snacking on your wonderfully protein enriched plants.
>>Better make that screening a strong wire mesh if you have any racoons in
>>the area, unless you want to do a neighbourhood search for pieces of your
>>bog.
>>
>>Rand Nicholson
>>
>>
>Fortunately, the largest wildlife I've seen around here are some squirrels.
>They haven't munched any plants yet -- but they seem to enjoy parading around
>and knocking my pots off the porch railing, as well as burying the occasional
>nut in a pot.
>
>Bob Korfhage

I had a red squirrel as a neighbour at my former residence where I grew
various Sarrs in a large picnic cooler. Aside from chewing on various
bug-filled pitchers (she almost ruined a S. purpurea, but she always
avoided the crown & rhizome: no bug soup, I presume), she apparently
decided that this cooler was the perfect place to make a stash. She would
dig down almost her body length trashing everything around her and leave
all sorts of junk in there. I have found, variously: a very soggy pizza
crust, a chunk of candybar and a neatly rolled up length of yarn. After two
weeks of trying to discourage this behaviour, I realized that she had won,
would always win, and I moved the cooler.

Rand