Protecting Bulbs from Hungry Critters

Sure sounds like passover madness to me!

Btw, gloria125 told me the other day that daffodils contain arsenic! That's why critters avoid them, and it's at least in the bulbs.

My critter repellent for tulips is Allium azureum, the little blue onion. The bulbs are tiny and inexpensive. Dried granulated garlic when I run out of Allium. But I'm going to try black pepper and Milorganite for my crocuses. Even my tommies have disappeared over the years.

yehudith: that was a wonderful post -- really made my happy to read it.

It's snowing here! How rude! It's snowing. My double tulips (Angelique and Mt. Tacoma) and my White Trumphinators and multiflowering Happy Family and Weisse Berliner seem fine, but to see late season, May blooming tulips with snow coming down around them is maddening!

Snowing? Goodness gracious!

EEWww....snow!?!?!?! That's terrible :(

It is VILE!!!!!!

I have to report success so far with Donna's "invisible fence" ring of daffodils idea. Any plants that I ringed with daffodils last fall have so far not been chewed by rabbits. Thanks Donna!

I am very happy that I could be of help! And thank you for thanking me. You made my day.

I have to agree. The daffodiles are helping. Last year I packed in the daffodils and so far not one lily has been chewed. Several have nice sized buts on them but no rabbit or deer chews. Thanks. Now if someone could help with my roses. They have little holes chewed in them and I can't think what they could be. They look like slug holes but they're 8 feet off the ground. Can anyone help.

Yehudith

Yehudith, it might be the sawfly caterpillar. They're tiny and green so very well camouflaged. All of my roses have those light brown dots and holes in them.

Yes, I must report success too. As the buds were emerging, I'm giving the credit to the Milorganite only because before that was thrown down I did have a crocus and a tulip bud nibbled. However, once the daffs came on, nothing was touched. Not a single tulip bud got nipped off, which was awesome because I've had such bad luck with them getting chewed in the past.

This is FABULOUS. Thank you all. Now pass the word so we can all plant our brains out!

Yes, it's great to hear. I always had the idea if you plant daffs with other stuff, the other stuff will be safer, but I've never convinced myself enough to use them consistently everywhere.. This is certainly convincng..