"Phisherman" wrote in message
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I have a pesky squirrel that figured out how to get into my protected
garden. The garden has a chicken wire fence with two electric wires
(one 6" and the other 15" from the ground). He jumps over the wires
and digs up the young cucumber sprouts, then manages to leave the
garden without getting shocked. I have a .22 air rifle (legal here
in the city limits although it might be hard to get an accurate shot
at a distance), but last night I set a Hav-A-Hart trap baited with
peanut butter graham cracker. The squirrel is not touching the
beets, carrots, radishes, tomatoes, peppers or zucchini. He makes
daily 8 AM rounds. Any other ideas?

Start you cucumbers in 4" plastic pots and allow them to grow in the pots
until they are too large to interest the squirrel. Once the seedlings reach
3", they can be knocked out of the pots and planted in the ground with no
slowdown in growth. I do this every spring on a hot, sunny, cement patio
area. The seeds sprout and grow more rapidly then they do when planted in
the ground.

John