Squirrels don’t intentionally dig up newly planted bulbs, but that’s how it seems. Your bulbs gets moved up to the surface as the squirrel buries it’s feast. Protect pots and new plantings with a cover of small mesh chicken wire now. Remove it when new growth is poking through the soil in spring.
Rake up leaves under roses to prevent blackspot spores overwintering in the soil. Affected leaves have dark brown or black, often coalescing, blotches on both leaf surfaces. Prune out infected shoots and remove any remaining leaves before they fall.
Those pictures are so cute!
ReplyDeleteI never had problems with our native red squirrels digging up bulbs (They 'plant' chestnuts and walnuts in my garden...), maybe because those red squirrels are rather shy compared to the grey squirrels you have (Luckily those haven't reached Belgium yet).
In the first years of our garden, rabbits have eaten most of my crocusses (but that was in spring), but afterwards, Myxomatosis has killed many rabbits, and they never came back so abundant.
Oh you're so lucky to have red squirrels. Although native to Ireland, the bloody grey unfortunately is the dominant for the most part although in saying that it appears that numbers of red are increasing all be it slowly! Delighted with your comment many thanks Ena x.x
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