I lost a seedling yesterday that was on the deck. I was looking at it going wtf and then I saw it laying a few inches away. I stuck it right back in the coco and it might make it. It was completely removed tho…has to be the birds.
1 Like
Birds is still my guess, as I’ve had no problems with my many other plants. No signs of rodents, but they are on the property periodically so could be.
Glad for once to live in suburbia; we get coyotes but no deer. So once the plants are big enough they’re safe, except for maybe the lower leaves. Rabbits eat my veggies, but per HOA we can’t put up rabbit wire. Raised beds it’ll be I guess!
1 Like
This year has been HORRIBLE for slugs near me with all the moisture… spread coffee, have beer traps, spread diatomaceous earth, still find the damn things 4/5 ft up on plants devouring fan leaves…
WTF? We had deer long before coyotes moved in. Coyotes are getting brazen too, saw one 2 nights ago, came within 15 ft of me and my neighbor, both of our dogs barking at each other (mine on a leash, his fenced), and at the back property line this coyote just waltzes by… NEVER saw one that close to the houses (here they usually stay deeper in the woods). Frankly, made me a bit nervous as my boy just had surgery and is easy takings right now. They do snatch small dogs, and will bait larger ones and pack attack. Seen that a few times here as well…
Surprised you have no deer, they get into every neighborhood near me, from the sticks to the city parks… Be thankful, they can mow down ALOT in no time flat…
3 Likes
Mice, rats and shrews will chomp freshly popped seedlings. I’ve never even knew I had a shrew coming into my house all the time untill it finished off 6!!! seedlings of gear I was really keen to run. Irony is that I kept it on my desk to keep an eye on them instead of the grow room…sighs
1 Like
slugs suck!
I have hated them for a long time…we are old adversaries. If they are really bad, and yes they can eat a 4-5’ plant in a couple days. Put out a plate with bone meal on it. Wait till a couple hours after dark, grab a set of scissors and a flashlight. Go check that plate…if your infestation is bad there will be slugs all around that plate… Ok…snip…snip…you will greatly reduce the population. The carnage is real! 
Another thing I do that I kinda stumbled on by accident, is to plant a swiss chard cultivar called Perpetual Spinach. If the two are side x side, kiss the chard goodbye. But they leave the weed alone and it’s been a savior here in slug city.
As for deer…easy…take a container and put 1 egg per gallon in there, just smash them in there, no need to mix. I have a 2.5 gallon container, I throw in 3 eggs. Put that in the sun for 2-3 days, let it fester up. Then spread that on anything you don’t want them to eat. Repeat after rain…they will stop even coming by…smells like death to them… They got 30 packs of eggs here for #3.50…so it’s dirt cheap to do. 
1 Like
thats bad when they become unafraid of humans, there was a study done between Texas and Calif. both have roughly the same coyote population, in Calif. they have more human coyotes problems ,attacks.
They came to the conclusion trhat its because in Texas they shoot them and in Calif. they try to feed them or in other ways befriend them.
I wouldn’t doubt it, people are just plain stupid at times… Had a bear near here they had to put down, not because it was near houses cause it wasn’t. It was always roadside eating skunk cabbage, and idiots from urban areas “wanted pics with it”. SMH… 3 years later, a college kid was killed by a black bear like 9 miles from that area (different one obv) but again, they were warned of the bear and “had to see it and take pics” (first black bear death in the state in like over 150 years). Coyotes we’ve had on the golf courses in the early morning for a while now… But they’ve kept their distance. I know there are several in the 100 acres behind my house, but never saw one that close till the other day (if my neighbor sees it again, he’ll pop it as a varmint).
Deer? can almost pet them here, no wonder the coyotes are coming outta the woodwork…
2 Likes
No cats allowed in the grow rooms. Two of them just want to lounge under the bright lights, but a third wants to munch on leaves. He’s the one that always tries to sneak in of course.
1 Like
It’s weird, we have turkeys, but no deer. I guess we don’t live close enough to a large enough forest patch. People in other parts of town get them sure but not here.
The coyotes are bad though, they creep in where the deer don’t seem to, maybe because they move at night when everything goes quiet, less people. Not that they’re afraid of people- I’d say you could pet them but they aren’t friendly, just not afraid lol. I don’t know anyone that leaves their dog out around here.
1 Like