Tropical Zone Gardening: iguana control, 0 by JPlunket

JPlunket wrote:
I was standing underneath a sea grape, so laden with fruit it had blocked our pathway, contemplating whether I should knock a bunch of the "grapes" off, to get it back up (the tree, that is). All of a sudden, I realized I was staring down a five-foot iguana whose snack of the fruit I'd interrupted. He clambered up out of sight, and I was sorry to have scared away a natural solution to my problem.

The next day, coming out of our outside shower, I spotted a bright green 18-inch juvenile, with a passionfruit stem-end protruding from his mouth. Hey, eat the durn sea grapes, kid!

GothQueen's approach is the best I've heard suggested anywhere. As with other less exciting garden intruders, THAT they eat is a given, WHAT and WHERE they eat is the only thing you have any chance of controlling.

Actually, in Vieques, the feral cats keep these guys in check. Few reach this size, and even this one "showed up dead" a short while after I took this picture a few years ago.


This message was edited Sep 13, 2009 8:13 PM