Give them squirrels plenty of unsalted peanuts in the shells.

They like them far better than digging up tulip bulbs.


Rachel wrote in message
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Any new ideas on deterring squirrel attacks on tulips? Last year I tried
Badger Balm back rub goo, which has cayenne pepper among the ingredients
in
a base of beeswax and olive oil. It doesn't wash off with rain and my
tulips
survived the whole season. This year, the squirrels have taken to biting
off
just the flower, even though I put the goo right where the blossom joins
the
stem. They don't even eat it, they just leave it lying on the ground.

Don't tell me to divert them with peanut butter.... They've got plenty of
diversions, including a new method of evading the baffle and reaching the
bird feeder. But they _really_ crave tulips.

Rachel