I have recently returned to gardening after a couple of years off looking after my sick mother. During that time I did little apart from mow the lawn and some occasional weeding and the local squirrels, grown fat on my uncollected apples have become fit and bold and aggressive. This last spring and summer they ate or dug up virtually everything I planted in the garden: they dug up and ate all my spring anemone bulbs from their tubs, bit off all the tomatoes and capsicum plants in grow bags, dug up the antirrhinum and sunflowers seedlings in the border, dug up the lawn for buried apples and then finally this summer, the one remaining sunflower which was growing on its own away from anything else and had got to 10 feet? They ran up the stalk and bit the head off. I tried a cat scarer and that scared the cats off but not the squirrels. It seems impossible to stop them digging up or eating EVERYTHING I plant. It never used to be a problem but I assume they have got bold after having free run of the garden for two years. Can anyone recommend any plants or vegetables (apart from daffodils) that squirrels don't like? I have a small town garden in London.

Honeyrose