"jOhN" wrote in message
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Fred C. Dobbs wrote:
My garden is just starting to get ripe slicing size tomatoes and it
turns out we get to share them with the 4 young squirrels we thought
were so cute just yesterday.

We got half of three tomatoes and the squirrels got the other half :-(

They were tasty though.....the tomatoes, not the squirrels.

Anybody have a good anti-squirrel tip or two that doesn't involve
violence or death?

jOhN

The squirrels ate four of my seven tomato plants. I came home yesterday
and the plants were just shredded.
I just ordered a water scarecrow that uses a motion detector to aim and
trigger its water spray to chase away the critters. It will be here
Monday - got great reviews and I know a couple of people that use them on
deer to their satisfaction.

ps: another tomato chewed this morning

I may have been too quick to pass guilt on the squirrels. I have seen a fat
field mouse/rat and a little cottontail rabbit in the backyard near the
garden (what's left of it). I need to fix those holes in the fence...

I wish I could leave my dog outside during the day.