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What could be eating my bell and banana peppers?
Posted on 5/8/16 at 9:02 am
Posted on 5/8/16 at 9:02 am
I had 30 banana peppers and 6 bell peppers on the plants. I noticed that one of the bells was gone yesterday this morning I woke up all but one banana pepper is gone the one left on the plant is half way eaten. Kind of looks like little teeth marks on the pepper. I live in marrero. In a nice neighborhood. Can it be mice or rats?
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Posted on 5/8/16 at 9:07 am to LSU_Smash_the_West
Squirrels is one possibility.
Posted on 5/8/16 at 9:16 am to LSU_Smash_the_West
Coons
Posted on 5/8/16 at 10:33 am to LSU_Smash_the_West
Rabbits? depending on how close you are to a field or wooded area.
Really could be any number of things. If I had to bet I'd say squirrels though.
Really could be any number of things. If I had to bet I'd say squirrels though.
Posted on 5/8/16 at 11:09 am to BiggerBear
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Squirrels is one possibility.
Why I never thought of that.... How can I stop them. I never really see them either
Posted on 5/8/16 at 11:17 am to LSU_Smash_the_West
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How can I stop them
therein lies the problem. Hardest animal to prevent from getting in garden bar none.
Killing is an effective option assuming there aren't 100 more to replace the deceased.
Last year I grew some great cherry tomatoes near edge of woodline. I may of gotten 10 ripe ones off the vines. Squirrels got somewhere around a 1,000. Tried running an electric fence here and there but it didn't work.
Get a pellet gun.
Posted on 5/8/16 at 11:37 am to LSU_Smash_the_West
Rabbits tore up my peppers last year.
Posted on 5/8/16 at 11:54 am to HeadBusta4LSU
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Coons
This or a possum i would think?
Posted on 5/8/16 at 12:06 pm to LSU_Smash_the_West
Set up a game camera
Posted on 5/8/16 at 12:17 pm to LSU_Smash_the_West
Jack Russell Terrier, problem solved
Posted on 5/8/16 at 1:11 pm to Babewinkelman
i have tons of squirrels, coons, deer.. anything you can imagine. I live in the middle of nowhere and have 30-40 different sweet and hot pepper plants each yr.
i have NEVER had anything bother them, not even bugs. Im not sure wtf got yours.... a neighbor? lol
i have NEVER had anything bother them, not even bugs. Im not sure wtf got yours.... a neighbor? lol
Posted on 5/8/16 at 1:49 pm to LSU_Smash_the_West
don't sell birds short.
Posted on 5/8/16 at 1:50 pm to oleyeller
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i have NEVER had anything bother them, not even bugs. Im not sure wtf got yours.... a neighbor? lol
Can't be. On was half eaten still on the plant with little teeth marks in it
Posted on 5/8/16 at 2:51 pm to LSU_Smash_the_West
Rabbits
Posted on 5/8/16 at 5:25 pm to TIGERFANZZ
Rally Possum
Posted on 5/8/16 at 6:11 pm to LSU_Smash_the_West
billy goat?
Posted on 5/8/16 at 6:13 pm to LSU_Smash_the_West
Probably rabbits. My old man's bell peppers have been getting smashed by bunnies
Posted on 5/8/16 at 6:34 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
Rabbits destroyed mine one year.
Posted on 5/8/16 at 8:02 pm to Chuker
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Hardest animal to prevent from getting in garden bar none.
Killing is an effective option assuming there aren't 100 more to replace the deceased.
No doubt. My dad got rid of 10 in five days (literally caught two a day). A couple of days later I'm at his house and I count seven more of them running around in his back yard.
He puts up chicken wire around his plants. He's got tomatoes, squash and strawberries against a fence. Put up a frame and attached chicken wire over and around the plants. He built chicken wire teepees above his butter beans, using bean poles. They have bricks around them at the bottom. He has a big wooden box with chicken wire on top where he has potatoes planted.
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