do raccoons steal from your garden? for Questionland Seattle

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do raccoons steal from your garden?

i started a small garden on the roof outside my apartment window earlier in the summer. my first tomato was starting to ripen and now it's gone; i'm guessing it was a raccoon but don't know much about critters.

keith harris asked in Gardening over 2 years ago | Report

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I caught a rat stealing a tomato out of my garden. It scurried up into an apple tree. I threw my hand cultivator up at it and it got stuck in the branches. Rats!

ds answered in Gardening over 2 years ago | Report

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Some relevant information missing here. The main question is how difficult is it to get to this particular area of the building's roof? How high, what kind of barriers, etc. I don't think of raccoons as critters that get on to high rooves that don't have easy access. They prefer dumpsters.

I'm actually being serious. The access restrictions to the stolen tomato will probably narrow down the culprit more than anything else.

Lee answered in Gardening over 2 years ago | Report

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it's a low roof over the parking garage; maybe 4.5 feet above the ground. the only barriers are wooden fences, which i would think a raccoon could climb. there is a big tree adjacent to the roof too.

keith harris commented over 2 years ago | Report

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Yeah, that's not enough to keep much of anything out. Hard to rule out any potential suspects. I doubt it's specifically raccoons, but finding out who's responsible might take some effort, unfortunately.

Lee commented over 2 years ago | Report

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We had 15 apples in our garage. Now there are none. WHAT!?

Melanie Bluck answered in Gardening 4 months ago | Report

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Not since we gave up trying to have a pond. It only took about three tries with stocking up with expensive water-lilies and so on, only to have the rootstock dug up and devoured the next night. Filthy little buggers; they tore up the neighbor's cat too (which I wouldn't have minded participating in myself; thing shit in our bushes every goddamn night). Once we got rid of the water, they went away. We still have rats, though. The worst eaters of things not meant for them are the damn starlings, though.

Fnarf answered in Gardening over 2 years ago | Report

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raccoons are taking our strawberries. we know it's not the deer, because the pots are on the deck and the deer are scared to walk on the deck. we know it's not squirrels or possums, because we don't have any. raccoons, though... raccoons we have.

Valkyrie answered in Gardening over 2 years ago | Report

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