Posted by Rootsy on July 19, 2010 at 12:51:17 from (24.247.111.162):
In Reply to: OT Garden questions posted by Herald on July 19, 2010 at 10:12:45:
#1... BE PROACTIVE... start long before they have taken to visiting every night in hordes...
#2... electric fences may deter some but the only sure way to stop damage is by elimination of the problem... IE... dead raccoons...
#3... Deer will do about 1/1000th the damage to a sweet corn patch that a raccoon will... Deer will pull some tassels and nip some silk but that really is the extent of it... Raccoon will go down a row and open every husk looking for a ripe ear... They start to do so long before anything is remotely ripe (they start at tasseling and silk emergence)... They will decimate a sweet corn field with repeated nightly feeding frenzies..
#4... get your hand on as many live traps as possible.. Set on the perimeter of your sweet corn patch, spacing them out. Put a piece of pipe or rebar through the rear corner, vertically, and pound it into the ground... Coons will tip a live trap over and then are able to get out... Bait that trap with good ole marshmallows... Don't be surprised if you find them pinned to the top in the morning with a hole dug under the cage and the grass and dirt filling the bottom half of the cage...
#5... take a walk in the morning to check your traps, bring your 22... shoot em in the melon and use em as fertilizer. What you kill over the course of a summer won't hardly dent the local population. In most states it is illegal to relocate a live trapped animal unless you are a conservation officer, animal control officer or licensed pest removal company.
If you wish not to kill em... then plant 10X what you hope to harvest... maybe more...
There's also the coca cola concoction but that's illegal in 50 states... and kills EVERYTHING and ANYTHING that drinks it... use with extreme caution...
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