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Well at least I know who's responsible for eating my lilies
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paulsiu 5a (
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Tue, May 22, 12 at 9:23
| I blamed the rabbits, but then had nagging feeling that they weren't the culprit. The lilies sit on a container and is over a foot tall. Rabbits aren't in a habit of getting into containers. There are no ground hogs in my area.
Today, I see a squirrel munching away on the lily I just planted. Why they would eat the lily is beyond me.
Paul
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RE: Well at least I know who's responsible for eating my lilies
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| I've had something eating my lily leaves too this year. Last year the critters didn't touch them. I thought it was bunnies, but it could be squirrels. |
RE: Well at least I know who's responsible for eating my lilies
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| Chipmunks dig up and eat lily bulbs (caught one dining on one about an hour after i had planted the bulbs) but I've never seen them or the squirrels eating the plants. You just never know I guess. |
RE: Well at least I know who's responsible for eating my lilies
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| The deer eat the flower stems from my lilies. I've been establishing a wide border of sweet woodruff, which the deer don't like, in front of the lily bed in hopes of seeing more than flower buds some day. KimKa |
RE: Well at least I know who's responsible for eating my lilies
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| Sad, the gray squirrel came back and eat the rest of my lily today. It also decide to "prune" my golden rod. Why so hateful! In contrast, the bunnies seemed to be content munching on clovers, which I am OK with :-). Paul |
RE: Well at least I know who's responsible for eating my lilies
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| The SQUIRREL ate your golden rod?! I was blaming the deer though they'd never touched my solidago before. Maybe it was those rascally squirrels! |
RE: Well at least I know who's responsible for eating my lilies
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| I hate squirrels, and couldn't bring myself to put something out for them to eat, but maybe it'd be worth a shot. Like one of those corncob feeders I've seen at the store or some bird seed. I can't say that I've ever seen a squirrel eat something green. Deanna |
RE: Well at least I know who's responsible for eating my lilies
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| The thing that I could never understand about the destruction by the squirrels or whatever is that no one else in my neighborhood had lost any lilies or anything else to these hateful creatures. I mean, the tulips next door were NEVER, EVER eaten down. Oriental lilies were NEVER EVER reduced to rubble after one waited an entire winter to see them grow. Bah humbug. |
RE: Well at least I know who's responsible for eating my lilies
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| Damn! they mowed down my coneflowers, too. Ironically, the rabbits in my areas seemed content to munch on the clover patch that I allow to grow wild on my lawn. Paul |
RE: Well at least I know who's responsible for eating my lilies
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| One word: Ropel. It works. Wild critters aren't deliberately mean and hateful. That's a human trait. They are just being wild critters, looking for food wherever you put it.
We are in their habitat, not the other way around. If you give them something else to eat, they might leave your plants alone, especially if you spray something on them to make it distasteful to them. BTW, black pepper and cayenne pepper work to deter groundhogs and squirrels. Just dust it on the plants. |
RE: Well at least I know who's responsible for eating my lilies
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| I know they are not being hateful, but boy they are annoying. I have actually attempted to deter them. The pot is layer with pepper flakes, the plants are sprayed with ropel. There are bird seeds in other area of the yard in the form of a bird feeder. The feeder has a baffle, but squirrels do hang around underneath to get spill overs. There's water nearby so they don't really need to eat the lily for water. Next year, I'll put up some chicken wire. Paul |
RE: Well at least I know who's responsible for eating my lilies
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| Ropel did not work for me. The day after I sprayed the lilies, they were chewed to the ground. What DOES work for keeping squirrels from digging in pots is lava rock. Since I started using this, they walk on top of the pots, but have not dug or chewed a single plant. (I don't grow lilies in pots however) Because squirrels always have their noses to the ground, a layer of lava rock seems to be too scratchy for them. My neighbor was having the same problem with them digging up her window boxes and since she started using the lava rock - problem solved. Kevin |
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