I wonder if after the repairs you couldn't get some predator urine to sprinkle around..I think you can buy fox urine (?) It seems otherwise you will be repairing constantly... samantha
________________________________ From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: Ronit Little <[email protected]>; [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, April 1, 2009 7:22:44 PM Subject: Re: [Community_garden] something eating my compost At 9:15 AM -0400 3/31/09, Ronit Little wrote: > So, to my utter disbelief something has chewed through the plastic of one of > my compost containers and has been feasting. I thought raccoon but was told > it might be a rat. what to do? is wire mesh the answer? > Yes, quarter-inch hardware cloth is the answer under the bins. I have some used biostack bins, some of which have small chunks eaten out of the sides. I make sure not to keep the eaten sides on the top level (I stack mine 4 or 5 levels high), so as not to encourage further munching. If the holes are big enough, I get a piece of tile and wrap some wire screening around it to make the side solid and the chewed area inaccessible to further munching. _______________________________________________ The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of ACGA's services to community gardeners. To learn more about the ACGA and to find out how to join, please go to http://www.communitygarden.org To post an e-mail to the list: [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: http://list.communitygarden.org/mailman/listinfo/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://list.communitygarden.org/pipermail/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org/attachments/20090401/48f699f7/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of ACGA's services to community gardeners. To learn more about the ACGA and to find out how to join, please go to http://www.communitygarden.org To post an e-mail to the list: [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: http://list.communitygarden.org/mailman/listinfo/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org
