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To: Ladysforest; greeneyes
Ladysforest :" Last year we had a HUGE crop on our tree. The birds and squirrels got lots and I pinched about 50% .."

You might consider planting some catnip mint under, or out by the drip line of the peach tree.
Catnip will encourage any feral cats or neighborhood cats to come visit which will reduce your bird and squirrel threat, and might dissuade any woodchucks from visiting.
Consider the catnip as a 'trap crop', unless you like catnip (relaxing) tea with camomile .

97 posted on 07/17/2016 9:22:29 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt ( British historian Arnold Toynbee - Civilisations die from suicide, not by murder.)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

Huuum. Well, as much as I want more peaches, I do love all the birds that visit that tree - I watch them from my dining room window. Now that catnip idea I might give a try to over by my cottage (pretty shed, LOL) and see if the kitties will hang out there to give the groundhogs the fidgets. With my luck they will team up and attack me.


105 posted on 07/17/2016 12:01:02 PM PDT by Ladysforest (Racism, misogyny, bigotry, xenophobia and vulgarity - with just a smattering of threats and violence)
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