George wrote:

On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 15:58:50 -0500, Martin McCaffery
wrote:


Any suggestions short of rat poison or a shotgun to keep the squirrels

from pillaging my tomatoes?

They wiped out 100+ ears of corn on us last year. We got to eat maybe
6 ears out of the whole garden. They are relentless and evil, the
devil's spawn. Worse than woodchucks.

We trapped and relocated about 15 - not in time to save the corn, but
at least reduced the population. And we didn't plant corn this year.

George
Hot pepper spray and/or powder is supposed to work too. We tried it and
found two problems. You have to reapply it after a rain and the
squirrels tie their napkins around their tiny throats waiting for us to
put out their treat. I guess someone didn't clue them in or they are
Mexican squirrels