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Aquila Posts: 1 |
Possums in your garden Posted 635 days ago Since moving into Ferntree Gully, Victoria, I have been battling possum problems. The back yard is full of them and after doing everything I could think of (including wrapping the trunks of my trees and shrubs in stiff, shiny black plastic) I found the only way to have a garden is to get chicken wire and tomato stakes, and build fences around every garden bed! My son says it looks like Fort Knox (which is apt because I live in Knox Shire) but at least I have a garden. The wire is not really noticeable, and I have put plastic spikes along the fence tops at the rear of each bed(spikes available at Bunnings). |
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pomolo Posts: 1099 |
RE: Possums in your garden Posted 633 days ago I know that some people leave out food that possums can eat in the hope that they will leave everything else alone. It sounds as though you have an army of them so perhaps expert help is advisable. |
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luvvy Posts: 2 |
RE: Possums in your garden Posted 465 days ago we have the same problem here in Adelaide, we have had to cage our fruit trees up, they also ate our rhubarb leaves and they are supposed to be poisonous. |
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hedi01 Posts: 3 |
RE: Possums in your garden Posted 450 days ago thanks .we have some advice |
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MatthewWilliam Posts: 78 |
RE: Possums in your garden Posted 447 days ago If possums are damaging ornamental plants or fruit in your garden then build a floppy fence around the garden. Use 80cm wide, heavily galvanized chicken wire, bury the bottom 20 cm and support the remainder on vertical lengths of flexible, high-tensile fencing wire. Bend the wire to curve the upper section outwards. When the possum attempts to climb the fence it will bend over and then spring back. |
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