Getting Possums out of my garden
By Nancy Zink
@ramapo17 (30441)
Melbourne, Florida
April 16, 2017 10:41am CST
I have spent many weeks and money buying plants and mulch and good soils and I went out to water and I saw so many holes near some of my plants. After trying to figure what was out there, my husband saw possums. They are nocturnal so I never see them. I am not an early riser.
Living in the northeast forever, I had to deal with the deer eating my plants, along with other animals eating some and now I thought I was rid of all that and now I have to deal with these critters.
If it is not one thing, it is another.
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@ramapo17 (30441)
• Melbourne, Florida
19 Apr 17
@just4him I just went outside to water and I found more holes in some of the plants on a table on the patio right near our door. I don't like them so close to my entrance way. I will have to move the plants that are in pots to another place.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
17 Apr 17
If you see one of them in the daytime run, it means they are sick. We had an electric fence around a garden a few years ago - that was the only way to keep them from eating the corn right off the plants.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
18 Apr 17
@ramapo17 They can do severe damage to your home, garage, etc. feeding them is not a good idea.
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@ramapo17 (30441)
• Melbourne, Florida
18 Apr 17
@AbbyGreenhill I know. That was in our past, now in Florida, I never see any critters as they come out at night.
@ramapo17 (30441)
• Melbourne, Florida
18 Apr 17
Okay, so they are like raccoons. We were always told the same thing for them. When we lived in the Poconos we lived in the woods and the raccoons would come and visit every night. My husband use to feed them all the time. He got very close to them. We also had the bears then too.
@minx267 (15527)
• Hartford, Connecticut
20 Apr 17
wow, I wasn't aware that possums dog holes... what is it that they are looking for do you think?
I would have suspected other critters first, Squirrels, Rabbits, Woodchucks, chipmunks.. Skunks even.. I think they like grubs.. is that what opossums would go after? hmmm ? will have to look that up... lol
@ramapo17 (30441)
• Melbourne, Florida
17 Apr 17
I might go out and put some mouth balls or crystals around the plants that they are attracted to. It is funny how they go to some and not others. They don't harm the actual foliage, just dig holes in the dirt that can harm the roots.
@ramapo17 (30441)
• Melbourne, Florida
17 Apr 17
You are so right as I am learning new ways to plant since we moved to the south from the northeast.
@ridingbet (66857)
• Philippines
18 Apr 17
oh, so i think there is an advantage being a Filipino living here in my country- we don't have possums or deer that may destroy our garden
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@ridingbet (66857)
• Philippines
19 Apr 17
@ramapo17 oh yes, surely right my friend. bears don't live here, but only in zoos. hahaha! we have so many stray cats here
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