I buy organic bacon and keep it in the freezer to be sliced off an inch at a time for little treats with pancakes or organic liver. I love liver as long as it is from clean animals and cooked nicely.

Deb!

Don't tell me you grow this daylily.

I'd grow that daylily to to see people's reaction when I told them the name.

Lestv said:Nice Debra!!! I actually think that would be a lovely sign to use! They may, and I mean may, get the point.

Someone stole a neighbors squash and zucchini right out of a front garden the other day. That seems beyond tacky.

I wouldn't worry too much about the zucchini!

That's a goodie, Rob. 'Cept I'd think it would give one an aversion to bacon, don't you? Kind of like Pavlov and the dog...

Grow weeds in the front garden & mark them 'rare vegetable'. that will teach them.

THAT is priceless.

I do have a patch of weeds in my garden. It is in the dogs area and not easily seen unless you are really looking for something. This is the sign I posted there.


I made one for a friend that says 'Exotic Herb Experimental Station'. She says people often want a start of her 'herbs'. I told her that since most weeds have medicinal properties to sell them a few.

I am a bad, bad person...... but I laugh a lot!

Heeeeee! Good one Lucy and Bonnie!!!

You are a bad, bad person!!!!!

I was searching the net for what eats Iris rhizomes and found this thread.
It seems from reading no one is really sure what mammals actually eats them other than vole and moles.
Well if that is all then I either have rock climbing mole or a vole that is over a foot long and can bend at the waist.

Now ten years ago I had one fancy one disappear the night I planted it; I blamed that on a five finger discount but then they were where no one would really know I planted them.

Well a couple of weeks ago, my replants of old ones, very old, I dug them up to get rid of quack grass, seemed to be doing OK.
I did not see them every day, I am gone for a time but when I got back I saw four lying on the ground and as dry as the roots were they had been there for awhile.
I transplanted them into a pot six inches across and eight inches high and set them on a rock sixteen inches off the ground and sixteen by thirty-six surface size with a few onions I had left over.
I left them as I had to leave again.
I came back two days later to find one set of leaves on the ground three feet away and the iris gone from the pot with the onions still there.
The potting soil was a bit disturbed but the pot was still upright no dirt was on the rock.
I have squirrels big enough to not knock the pot over if they were in there.
I do not know if I have raccoons, but do they eat iris as what ever it was picked them out of the pot and carried them away.
They were nothing special as when I replanted I did so willy-nilly and these just happened to be the ones lying on the ground.

From reading the net this one thing there are no solid answers.

RpR Yup, must be the Gnomes! I understand that deer will sometimes take a bite and then drop them because they don't like the taste. If they happen to bite on one that's newly planted it would of course pull it out. The only way you will know for sure is to set up a trail camera. I think squirrels will some times do that too, more for play then to eat them. They can get almost anywhere. It would be interesting to know for sure. Good luck solving this one.

This thread was very funny, I am glad it popped up.
RPR

RPR, hope you find out what is was.

! Yes, the gnomes are by far the worst offenders! When the iris get too well rooted in to move, they will steal your markers, and hide your tools !

I have newly planted rhizomes dug up over and over no matter where I plant them. The critter responsible is not looking for the plant but what is in the soil it is planted in. So, I expect it is some nocturnal animal looking for grubs. Big established pots of any plants will be knocked over and the soil under the pot disturbed. Ground cover will have trails of 'ditches' in it as they search for their prey. Newly dug earth is a great place for grubs to migrate to apparently and since it is not packed soil it is the best place for the foraging animal to 'hunt'. Some of the irises are a ways away from the original planted area. Don't know what that is about but the rhizome is never eaten..... just discarded. I have to check on newly planted irises each morning during the hot months in order to keep a rhizome from lying in the sun and perhaps not surviving the ordeal.

Just to share my experiences with disappearing iris:

In the summer and the fall I have had skunks dig them up searching for grubs and rabbits trying to "sample" the newly planted ones. Both critters leave them laying somewhere on the top of the ground.

In the late fall and winter, if exposed, rabbits, will find the most palatable and use them as a salad for grazing. Some of them will be eaten right into the rhizome and that makes them "goners".

I mostly circle my new iris with rabbit fencing in October and all my iris beds have two tiers of rabbit fencing.

On the bright side some of my no show or moved to another location iris have shown up YEARS later in the original location!

Squirrels are a pain in the rear for potted iris. They are always so sure they buried an acorn in the pot, so must explore all that nice soft dirt. They wreak havoc on my coleus enough that I have put wire caging around the inside of the pot. They are the minions of those gnomes so you have to be careful!