Gardening with possums

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Rosalie Joy Ballantyne - 27 Jun 2008 09:10 GMT

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

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Chookie - 27 Jun 2008 09:57 GMT

> 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?

Cacti?

:-)

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bassett - 28 Jun 2008 09:07 GMT

> Hi,
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> RJ

Easy, Plant some roses, Possums just love rose petals, and while they
have rose petals they will leave everything else alone.

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Norm - 25 Jul 2008 03:39 GMT

On Jun 27, 6:10 pm, "Rosalie Joy Ballantyne" <r.ba...@bigpond.com>
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

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Jonno - 26 Jul 2008 04:43 GMT

> On Jun 27, 6:10 pm, "Rosalie Joy Ballantyne" <r.ba...@bigpond.com>
> wrote:
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> 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...

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Erik Vastmasd - 26 Jul 2008 08:03 GMT

>> On Jun 27, 6:10 pm, "Rosalie Joy Ballantyne" <r.ba...@bigpond.com>
>> wrote:
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>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.

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Gardening with possums