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preventing squirrels eating shoots**!**!
I planted many different varieties of bamboo several years ago and was
plunged into near despair recently by the fact that squirrels have developed a taste for and destroyed virtually all of the beautiful new shoots coming up this year... I have been trying all sorts of deterrents including caging, hot sauce, bug spray,..etc,. all with little or no success. I have finally stumbled onto something that works reasonably well and want to pass it on to others... It occured to me that cats are a squirrel's natural enemy and so I had a brainstorm.. a friend of mine has many cats and so I asked for her kitty litter waste.. This cat urine and feces mixed with clay has been a godsend to me... I mix it with water and let it soak for a while and then I stir it all up in a big bucket with a plaster mixer on the end of a heavy duty drill... I end up with a very stinky mayonaise textured substance which I then paint onto the shoots as they come up.. I make a trip around the place every morning and with a small little broom I apply this nasty stuff to the shoots... When it dries the clay leaves a stinky residue on the shoots) I am glad to report that the squirrels leave them alone... (and yet continue to destroy the shoots that I overlook and don't paint).. I caution you that I killed a few shoots initially by pouring the mixture on with a big spoon and I think that it ended up burning them with too much nitrogen around the base... Since then I just lightly paint the stuff on... You only need to apply the stuff until the shoots get a few feet high and harden... Give it a try,... it has worked for me... David |
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some people just cant let animals be. what gives you the right to hord bamboo when squirrels might need it just as much as we do. obviously your somebody who has absolutely no consideration or deeper knowledge of gardening ettiquete and frankly you are a disgrace.
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