What can I do to keep raccoons from digging in the mulch in my flower beds?

Toss out several moth balls --- the scent should deter those masked diggers! (They are cute, but oh, are they naughty!)

What can I do to keep raccoons from digging in the mulch in my flower beds?
You could get a dog! Or call the humane society, they will usually come out and set a trap, once caught they will get it and re-set the trap if there are more then one. Good Luck!
Reply:This is the 3rd question in a few days about annoying animals that dig in flower beds. So I'll just plod ahead with my standard suggestion: have you tried spreading blood meal on the surface of the beds? Animals avoid such an area. It's said they "sense their own kind" and stay away from the blood meal location.





Blood meal is already a well-known soil enricher/fertilizer, so it cannot harm anything.





It's inexpensive and doesn't dissolve. Good on compost heaps, too, when raccoons or skunks hang out there.





Other gardeners say bone meal works just as well but I've only tried blood meal. Sprinkle/spread on surface. One or two applications per growing season.





In my experience, mothballs and cayenne pepper are not sufficiently strong to really deter these animals.
Reply:Try some moth balls.
Reply:moth balls and or a lil red and black pepper.
Reply:Start a hat making business
Reply:put moth balls in the edge of the flower beds it'll keep all kinds of rodents away.
Reply:Shoot 'em!