Important Tips for Keeping Wildlife from Eating your Flower Bulbs

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by Abdiel Ward

In current times, humans and wildlife are being required to live with each other more than ever before. Numerous people have difficulty with wildlife intruding intro their homes and eating their garden. What ways are available to ensure that your garden stays intact and beautiful while at the same time causing no harm to the wildlife that enjoy eating your plants, flowers, and vegetables. This article will look at a few solutions that you can employ to keep your garden looking great.

For the most part wildlife is usually a joy to observe, there are times though, when certain animals can become exasperating at best, especially if they have taken an interest in the haven of greenery and colorful flowers that you have taken a great deal of time to create. When discouraging wildlife from destroying your garden, you ought to think about the senses that they depend on, and use these as a deterrent. The majority of wildlife has a superior sense of smell, and often amazing hearing. You can make repellants that play on these elements.

Repellants that play on scent are almost certainly the most effective. Strong smells such as garlic, baby powder, chili power, or rotten eggs all interfere with the wildlife's ability to smell the plants that they like to eat. It is important to reapply these smells when they wear off or if you receive a heavy rainfall. You can also spray repellants for example; mix water with hot pepper onto plants will make them unappetizing to the wildlife that enjoys them.

If you prefer to use repellants that play on the visual and audio senses you can consider items such as the scarecrow, motion detectors with spotlight, and radios. These devices will scare the wildlife and they will flee. The only complication with this method is that the wildlife will soon learn that no real threat exists and will wander back to munching on their favorite part of your beautiful garden. One way to make these devices last a bit longer is to change their location so that whatever wildlife is entering your garden will not know from which direction the light or sound will come from. Animals are very intelligent and will earn from experience, in whatever manner they were stopped they may remember that and stop or simply try to find another way in so be on your toes because you may have a bit of battle ahead of you.

When you choose your repellants remember to choose those that are safe to use around children and pets. The goal is to deter the wildlife from eating your garden not trying to bring about harm to the animal.

аHistorical Quote

Alice opened the door and found that it led into a small passage, not much larger than a rat hole: she knelt down and looked along the passage into the lovliest garden you ever saw. How she longed to get out of that dark hall, and wander about among those beds of bright flowers and those cool fountains, but she could not even get her head through the doorway.

—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)

Fences are very expensive and take a lot of work to set up but are a viable option for excluding certain types of wildlife from your garden. With a fence, you have the option of enclosing your entire yard or certain sections that prove troublesome. Whichever method you decide it is important to create the fence that will effectively keep out the wildlife that is eating your garden.

If you have no used hardware cloth before, you might want to try it, as it is a great barrier to use in protecting your plants. You can use this when you plant your bulbs. Make sure you get on with ╛" holes in it and your bulbs will sprout right through it and the wildlife will not be able to reach their intended treat. If that is not an option for you there is always the old screen trick. With this method, you can take an old screen and lay it over the planted area. With this method, your bulbs will get rain, air, and plenty of sunlight but will prove difficult for the wildlife to get through to your bulbs. Another method is to plant deep Ц this will discourage burrowing, as most wildlife will only dig no deeper than 6 inches. If you were to plant the bulbs a few inches lower than six inches, the wildlife may simply give up and leave your garden in peace.

You have worked hard on your garden and if you have wildlife working just as hard to enjoy it, try the various repellant methods mentioned to ease your frustration and bring your garden back to life.

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