On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 13:43:28 +1000,when reading "aus.gardens", I'm
certain I caught a glimpse of "Jonno <blue@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>" saying:
>Norm wrote:
>> On Jun 27, 6:10 pm, "Rosalie Joy Ballantyne" <r.ba...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm trying to start a new garden and have some resident possums. I'm
looking
>>> for some easy care, hardy plants that have low appeal to possums. Any
ideas?
>>>
>>> RJ
>>
>> I suspect that gardeners are rarely animal or bird lovers. However, I
>> would like to point out that possums are Australian
>> natives and should be allowed their space here. A gardening
>> acquaintance of mine who lives in a very possum
>> populated area, not only has their garden surrounded by a chain wire
>> fence, they also have their compost heap
>> similarly enclosed. It is just the same as keeping chooks or sheep
>> etc. You keep them behind a fence.
>> It is just a case of not letting your potatoes etc wander.
>>
>> Norm
>We are animal lovers, its just we like to have both.
>Its a battle of outsmarting the possums when it comes to food.
>Some wandering potatoes eh. If we can get them to move fast enough with
>genetically modified methods we may even outsmart them..
>Maybe if we crossed them with wandering jew we could make a start...
I have two dogs so don't suffer possums interfering with my veggies.
My neighbour doesn't have a dog so once a year he borrows my possum trap
to relocate his visiting possums to the local park in a neighbouring
suburb.
I can't see the harm in doing that because nobody is harmed.
--
Erik.
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