squirrels, squirrels and more squirrels

[EPawlick]

Originally Posted by Cole_Robbie

Plastic netting is cheap. So is pvc conduit. If you are only using it to support netting, you could get away with a much less sturdy structure than what would be required to support greenhouse plastic. I have bought "wildlife netting" fencing at Menard's. It was I think $25 for 7' x 100'. It could be stitched together, I am guessing, and used to enclose a garden.

This past growing season, I was able to keep the squirrels out by using a combination of 6 or 8 foot tomato stakes, Quest Bird Dfence black netting, twine, and plastic tent pegs.

I use the twine to 'sew' the netting together and hold the netting to the top of the tomato stakes where needed. The tent pegs are tacked into the ground to keep the squirrels from getting in.

My structures are temporary for the growing season and I take them down for the winter.

This fall, I put netting secured by twine to 4-foot stakes around my strawberry and garlic gardens to protect them from squirrels over the winter. ... I'm hoping this will be enough to keep them out over the winter.

[Worth1]

One of Bills squirrels sent this to me.

[Worth1]

This is a recipe straight from the White House cook book.

SQUIRREL SOUP.
Wash and quarter three or four good sized squirrels; put them on, with a small tablespoonful of salt, directly after breakfast, in a gallon of cold water. Cover the pot close, and set it on the back part [Pg 38]of the stove to simmer gently, not boil. Add vegetables just the same as you do in case of other meat soups in the summer season, but especially good will you find corn, Irish potatoes, tomatoes and Lima beans. Strain the soup through a coarse colander when the meat has boiled to shreds, so as to get rid of the squirrels' troublesome little bones. Then return to the pot, and after boiling a while longer, thicken with a piece of butter rubbed in flour. Celery and parsley leaves chopped up are also considered an improvement by many. Toast two slices of bread, cut them into dice one-half inch square, fry them in butter, put them into the bottom of your tureen, and then pour the soup boiling hot upon them. Very good.

[Starlight]

I'll trade ya problems Bill. I'll trade ya squirrels for my snakes. I have about 26 squirrels running around here now, but I have so many Oak and Hickory trees they have plenty of food. Surprisingly they didn't touch any of my tomatoes, but the chipmunks sure did of ones hanging down. I also keep cheesecloth around the outside area of my plants.

Now what the squirrels are doing is burying nuts in my containers and disturbing the roots. Come spring I have to go all around and rip out seedlings. The thing they have frustrated me most is the have gone threw and munched off every leaf to the roots of my Comfrey plants and have taken the leaves to line there nests with. Comfrey has alot of health benefits for healing wounds, but the leaves are sort of a soft fuzzy feeling. Guess they don't want to spend the winter with their rumps being scratched raw from all the dried tree leaves.

The squirrels here are smart. You bring a gun out and they all disappear. You bring out a rake to get up the fallen leaves and they romp around the ground around you.

The only thing good about having so many squirrels is they are a natural form of look out. If there a snake or some other not so nice critter around, they climb up the trees and make enough racket to make you wish had ear plugs. They have saved my tail from getting snake bit a couple of times.

[EPawlick]

Last December, the squirrel left his peanut on top of the green floral foam in our outdoor Christmas planter because he couldn't dig down into the foam or pull out the cedar sprigs.

I fooled him!

[Jimbotomateo]

Originally Posted by EPawlick

Last December, the squirrel left his peanut on top of the green floral foam in our outdoor Christmas planter because he couldn't dig down into the foam or pull out the cedar sprigs.

I fooled him!

[Starlight]

Originally Posted by EPawlick

Last December, the squirrel left his peanut on top of the green floral foam in our outdoor Christmas planter because he couldn't dig down into the foam or pull out the cedar sprigs.

I fooled him!

That is so funny.

[Worth1]

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[BigVanVader]

I'd use row cover. Tie some metal post to each side and ur set.

[Starlight]

Originally Posted by Worth1

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Super funny. Poor Bill! Hope you get rid of your pests soon.

[Zana]

Saw this today...hope the post works. I'd love to build one of these, considering the damage those darn tree rats did to my garden the past 2 years.

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[dmforcier]

That's brilliant! Squirrels in orbit!

[AlittleSalt]

Zana

With the big cats nearby, our squirrel population has decreased big time. I've seen two of them in the past couple of months. Last year, they were everywhere. In a way, I sort of miss them because the oak trees have dropped more acorns than we have ever seen. Next year, we'll be mowing new oaks like they were weeds.

[agee12]

I have squirrels galore in my neighborhood but have not had problems with squirrels probably because two summers ago I started feeding a couple of neighborhood cats before I learned that is a no no and I'm guessing that they are deterring the squirrels

[dmforcier]

It's a no-no to feed cats?


I guess I'm going to hell.