My garden starts off wonderfully. The pumpkins flower, the roses shoot, the apple tree is loaded... And then the possums arrive.
Overnight they manage to remove large sections of foliage, and to eat at least a bite of every fruit.
Do you have a possum problem? How do you combat it? I've seen ads for noise makers, sensor lights and fishy sprays; what do you use?
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#Home This is the easiest thing to answer and it works and it's a friendly way to save your garden.
Buy solar lights! You can find cheap ones if you put your mind to it to go on a mission to find them. Bunnings have then all year round and you can buy "strings" of them that aren't xmas or ones in a rod to stick into the ground from balls, to butterflies. Even owls. You'll be surprised how they stay away. Also the blinkie ones. I lose no veggies or roses etc at all. They are nocturnal so lights can repellent them from getting near certain areas of your garden or string them into the trees that are bring attacked.
Just buy a say one string of lights, hang them up then budget for the next lot. They aren't really expensive at all. I buy string lights b,c it's more economical to do so. My garden, has least in the front but at Xmas heaps and out the back quite a lot and again not xmassy. A generic theme.
It's environment lyrics friendly and works a treat. Try it, all the gardeners I know use them. Owls singularly cost quite a bit and you just get one. Shop around!