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What Might Be Digging in Flower Pots?
What Might Be Digging in Flower Pots?. A wide variety of animals like to dig in gardens, including outdoor flower pots. Most of the worst offenders are mammals. Other common culprits are squirrels, cats, and deer.
A wide variety of animals like to dig in gardens, including outdoor flower pots. Most of the worst offenders are mammals. Other common culprits are squirrels, cats, and deer.
Types
Deer usually avoid urban city centers, but may dig for shoots in flower pots in city outskirts and more rural areas. Neighborhood cats with free reign will dig into flower pots and use them as a restroom. Less common diggers include skunks, groundhogs, rabbits and dogs.
Squirrels
Squirrels will go after flower bulbs in pots, or dig them up to bury their own seeds. They are also drawn to freshly turned dirt, and will sometimes dig in flower pots just to see if there's something to eat there.
Prevention/Solution
The most thorough prevention method is to surround the property with sturdy fences. This will shut out deer, rabbits, dogs and some small animals. Squirrels can be repelled by dried blood meal sprinkled around bulbs. Cats will not go near flower pots that have been sprayed with a solution of water and garlic.
