Annette, how does using neem oil on your bulbs keep the squirrels from digging them up?
Kabby, the behavior of critters can be confusing. If you think that's bad, you should have seen what I saw the year before last. I was sitting on my deck that DH built for me one day, feeling downright depressed. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw a squirrel coming down the Bradford pear tree. I thought nothing of it, until I saw him climb up my Bartlette pear tree. When it came down, it had the biggest pear on the tree in it's mouth.
At first I did not know how to react--amused, stunned, perplexed
, as the pear was larger than the squirrel. Then reality set in.
What was he going to do with that huge pear? Why was he not satisfied with all of those millions of beady sized pears on the Bradford pear tree? And why did he have to go and get the largest fruit off of my pear tree?
DH and I were sitting in the den looking out the window and observing crows stealing pears of the tree, earlier that same day. He remarked, animals/critters have to eat too. Well, they do they have to be greedy? I jumped up (depressed no longer), got my GF to come over and together we picked nearly all of the fruit off the tree, so that we could enjoy some. Greedy critters!!
