After using fertilizer on my pot plants I very soon hold a huge bird who have taken a fancy to digging up the dirt? I have placed sizeable pebbles on the top of the soil, but...
I have placed sizeable pebbles on the top of the soil, but it still manages to verbs and make a mess. Is nearby anything I can use to dissuade the bird from digging?
Answers: Tee - your question is a really good one. The most probable lead to for "Birds" pecking at your soil and even through the pebbles is that your application of fertilizer may have be too strong - thus it has made any insects, worms etc come to hand the surface to escape the fertilizer which could burn them or be toxic to them. Birds have exceedingly little sense of scenting things (such as dogs, cats do). Now if it is a squirrel or fox etc who is digging - the smell of the fertilizer may attract them, modern (especially organic) fertilizers are commonly (though not always) based on any chicken manure or seaweed. The scent of these never go and the animals can scent it when it becomes wettened by watering etc.
Mostly - some plants do not require fertilizer - but appreciate a solution feed (fertilizer within liquid form) so try this. The sense for using liquid fertilizer on containers is that here is less build-up (concentration) of fertilizer within the growing medium (compost). Hope this help.
chicken wire i guess..