Around here fall planting tulips and other fall bulbs usually end up a critter supplement for winter. Attracts moles , voles that love them and my iris rhizomes , seems to be a fav winter snack until spring . This year I have vowed not to plant any critter food. It’s hard not to have spring tulips, but have found other spring plants that are critter proof.
I'm mostly not planting any bulbs this fall. I did plant some Siberian Squill. Not much, though. Last year, I went all out planting container tulips, daffodils, hyacinths... Most of them looked great. But they are too much effort for me now. There are some tulips in my fenced vegetable garden, that seem to return each year. I didn't know that a lot of critters eat bearded irises. Mine are mostly victims of slugs. Who knew? This week, everywhere I looked there were giant slugs migrating in the lawn. I mean, huge! As big as a Volkswagon Beetle! I use a big leaf to pick them up and take them to the woods. The chickens wont eat them.
Great pic @Daniel W Good comparison. @Logan slugs will practically eat anything around here. Slug predators help contain them. Slugs are a huge issue for PNW gardens, especially the huge banana slugs 6-10”long. Even if the horses step on one it doesn’t kill them… creepy little buggers. I usually put down sluggo where our pets don’t have access. Otherwise it’s pick and drop in a bucket of soapy water. Best time to do it is a night. However, around here at night you also run the risk of running face to face with a huge raccoon. Once was enough for me as the huge raccoon stood up on his hind legs and hissed at me. I scared him and vice versa.
I thought this was interesting . Saw it on the weather channel. Plant that blows bubbles. Jatropha curcas
I had to Google it and can blow bubbles from the sap, some species are poisonous and some are edible.
