🚀 go-pugleaf

in article <c7rkol$gpo$1@news.Stanford.EDU>, i
<zwicky@Turing.Stanford.EDU> relayed a suggestion to
sbruce909@charter.net, about those citrus-eating possums.

jess anderson in wisconsin expands his reply:
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I completely forgot about coyote urine, which here (thanks to
the plentiful local supply of coyotes), is even more effective.

Also -- I don't know how well this works for opossums, but it's
pretty good at banishing rabbits from gardens -- you can buy
bags of dried sheep's blood and spread that on the ground.

I finally discovered that the reason a bare patch in my large
bed of wild roses (_rose blanda_) was not getting filled in,
despite the plant's tendency to send suckers up all over the
place, was rabbits. They don't eat the young shoots, but just
cut them off smartly and leave the severed piece on the ground.
A low plastic fence now surrounds that bed until high summer.

For whatever reason, this has been the best year in memory for
blooming trees and shrubs. Magnolias, crabapples, redbuds and
viburnums (the last two, I have in my own yard) have been
incredible.
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...more to come.

arnold