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Produce => Pests & Diseases => Topic started by: CotswoldLass on February 21, 2011, 12:30:26

Title: What's eating my bulbs?
Post by: CotswoldLass on February 21, 2011, 12:30:26
Just one bed, not the pots, but some little blighter's eaten all the crocuses down to ground level and is munching through the tulips. Is it mice?

Title: Re: What's eating my bulbs?
Post by: shirlton on February 21, 2011, 12:32:18
Last year we watched a squirrell pull up a hyacinth and carry it off and eat it.
Title: Re: What's eating my bulbs?
Post by: Ellen K on February 21, 2011, 14:28:43
Yes, grey squirrels do love tulip bulbs, I have to put chicken wire over the pots in winter and early spring or they are lunch.
Title: Re: What's eating my bulbs?
Post by: saddad on February 21, 2011, 15:01:24
At Savill gardens the other week the gardener said that rooks/crows and Jackdaws were particularly keen on crocus and had taken about 2000 from one bed"  :o
Title: Re: What's eating my bulbs?
Post by: CotswoldLass on February 23, 2011, 16:35:54
OK, we have visits from crows and jackdaws so I guess that might be it. The pots are fine, just a more secluded bed has been routed. Might try putting some chicken wire over it.

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