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Raccoons in your Heirloom / Open Pollinated Vegetable Garden

Raccoon - Raccoons love your extra early Heirloom / Open Pollinated Sweet Corn, all sweet corn for that matter!

Raccoons may become nighttime regulars to your Heirloom / Open Pollinated Vegetable Garden. There are many old-time tricks to keep raccoons out of your Heirloom / Open Pollinated Corn patch, but once raccoons get a taste of your sweet corn, it will be almost impossible to keep them out.

If you are growing extra-early sweet corn, get ready to protect it. The local raccoons will sniff it out because it will be the only sweet and delicious corn around. We find that once the farmers next to us have corn in their fields that's ready to eat, the raccoons don't bother our crops as much.

Keeping Raccoons away from your Heirloom / Open Pollinated Vegetable Garden

One method is to build an electric fence. Put the wires 6" off the ground and 6" apart going up two feet. For the fence charger, get one that is used for livestock and follow the directions for hooking it up. You will need a couple of ground rods too.

You can also try spreading moth crystals between corn rows at each edge of the Heirloom / Open Pollinated Vegetable Garden. Raccoons hate the taste of Raccoon - Raccoons love Heirloom / Open Pollinated Sweet Corn, make sure you protect it carefully. moth crystals on their paws. Try putting out the moth crystals at dusk, when raccoons will hunt for food as soon as it gets a little dark. We never had to use them down the entire row, working the edges did just fine. If it rains, you'll have to put down more crystals. If you are a careful observer, you may find paths through tall grass that raccoons take to the garden. If so, sprinkle a little creosote along the path. Raccoons don't like getting this on them either, and it may discourage them.

Raccoons aren't as much of a problem at our place as turkeys are. Turkeys will totally destroy our crop if we let them go unchecked.




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We thank you for visiting our site, and hope you will be pleased with your purchase. We strive to bring you the highest quality heirloom and open-pollinated garden vegetable seeds, non-hybrid, non-genetically modified (non-GMO), and completely untreated with unhealthy chemicals. That is our pledge to you our valued customer, we will never knowingly buy or sell genetically modified (GMO) or hybrid seeds. We work very hard to ensure that you can have confidence knowing that the seeds your heirloom open-pollinated plants create will give you the same heirloom open-pollinated vegetable variety next season (when given proper isolation from cross-pollination of course!), and that they will be pure, healthy vegetable garden seeds! Happy Gardening!