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Shohin
We live by a big park teeming with wildlife, so we're used to having visitors in the backyard, rooting around for fallen fruit. They've never gotten into my plants before, though. The last week, I've been awakened at about 3am by a mother and two child racoons climbing up a fence, shambling past my bedroom window and into my backyard. We have a junky apple tree dropping lots of fruit, plus some peaches at the tail-end of harvest and some nectarines that are getting good, so I just assumed they were eating and moving on. No big deal.
Last night, they climbed up on two of my benches, dug through some soil and knocked a half dozen plants to the ground. Mostly early projects, but they whacked my cascade shimpaku, thankfully caught by a small work bench I happened to leave next to it yesterday. I may have lost a couple neagari JBP projects in their third year, but hopefully the root tube kept them alive.
I have a bunch of XXX Hot red chile powder from my New Mexico days that I rarely use, so I was going to try sprinkling that along the access fence they've been using. Any other suggestions? I assume they were sniffing the fertilizer.
Last night, they climbed up on two of my benches, dug through some soil and knocked a half dozen plants to the ground. Mostly early projects, but they whacked my cascade shimpaku, thankfully caught by a small work bench I happened to leave next to it yesterday. I may have lost a couple neagari JBP projects in their third year, but hopefully the root tube kept them alive.
I have a bunch of XXX Hot red chile powder from my New Mexico days that I rarely use, so I was going to try sprinkling that along the access fence they've been using. Any other suggestions? I assume they were sniffing the fertilizer.