From dog hair to mothballs, gardeners are getting creative when it comes to protecting plants from possums, but experts say fencing is key to saving the friendship.
"They don't like unstable surfaces."
"It's just protecting them until the stems and trunks are strong enough that they can support a possum."Gardeners in a large social media group shared possum remedies, including collecting dog hair from groomers to put around fruit trees and vegetables, and hanging blood and bone in stockings from trees.For Quamby Brook gardener Ray Landsmann, a fence structure he described as "the Berlin Wall" was the only solution to saving his vegetables.
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