Ideas For Strong Tasting Plants

olly300

Right I'm fed up of squirrels, foxes and next doors kitten/cat biting the heads of my flowers and digging up my plants.

However one thing I've noticed is that the plants they will leave alone are strong tasting or prickly.

Apart from herbs like lavender, thyme, chives and flowers like alliums, roses, daffodils what else can I grow?

Partly due to space the only veg I've successfully grown is chillis as after a squirrel took a bite out of one of them they left the plants alone. :rotfl: (Rest of my veg I grow else where.)

Soil is clay but some areas have been worked so are sandy.

peter_the_piper

Some hardy geraniums are very pungent, "Biokovo" is one.

Kay_Peel

Last year I put a bulb-let of fennel in the ground. It turned out spectacularly - the feathery stalks and leaves reached six feet high and the aniseed tasting bulb grew bigger than a tennis ball. It swayed, swooshed and shimmered in the middle of the border all summer and loads of people asked me about it. It fell over in the snow but new shoots appeared in spring.

The surprising thing is that the border with fennel in appeared to be untouched by the Usual Suspects. I don't know whether it was the smell of the plant or whether it was the swooshing movement and sound of it.

As a matter of course I plant a clove a garlic and marigolds near to vegetables. I put them in smallish pots and move them around.

:beer:

Grumpycupple

Scaredy Cat plant and coriander seems to work in mine along with hardy geraniums.

Lube

How about Marigolds they smell and good for using around tomatoes to put off greenfly

olly300

Cheers. I was particularly looking for perennials or self sowers.

Ginger_Snap

Our chickens have eaten their way through most of the plants in my garden, but they do not seem to like hellebores so they might be worth you trying. Perhaps its because I seem to remember they are poisonous...not sure if its just the roots.