Here’s a picture of the motion-activated spotlight in our apartment:
And here it is in the well house. Andy pointed it towards the area where the rats had tried to build their nests.
So far no new rats in the zappers.
It’s not just our equipment that needs protecting. Here’s the new layer of fencing Andy put around our redwood tree to keep it from being destroyed by bigger critters.
Do you ever have problems with animals eating your stuff?
September 21, 2014
No. It is rather difficult for them, living in a city’s suburb as I do.
Lucky you!
Karen planted an apple tree in the spring. I added fencing around it to protect it from what we think is deer. We’ll see how it’s doing next week when we get back home.
I hope you’re having a great trip, but it’s always good to get back, isn’t it?
I hope it works! But don’t you just wish you had been the one to think of something so ingenious?
Unfortunately, it didn’t work as well as we had hoped. Another one zapped in the truck yesterday. 🙁
Animals would eat everything edible here if we didn’t protect it (our veggie garden is a high security area)! They even ate the seed pods from the Columbine plants in my garden. I was hoping to collect those seeds to plant them…. (I try to expand my columbine garden every year). I guess I’ll be buying some seeds!
That’s the kind of problems we have. We’ve also had problems with chewed hoses, holes in our plywood shed, and once we came up from the garden to see a porcupine chewing on one of the tires of our car. Andy was not pleased.
Luckily there are no nuisance-animals in Belfast. Nothing gets eaten or chewed or otherwise damaged, except by the usual garden pests. London has a lot of foxes but I’ve never seen one here.
a blackbird ate many of my tomatoes – two years on the trot. I once found him almost digging the soil to get under my portable fence…
He didn’t get any last year as I didn’t plant any, I saw him in the garden though…he seemed to be looking greyer on the top plumage.
I’m not sure if I am planting any tomoatoes this year…although I might because the ones I did manage to eat had a lovely flavour…