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Go find some hot pepper powder and sprinkle the plants liberally with
it. Also, you might try feeding the squirrels something they will like better. Or, you can use a .410. ;-) Ray "tom hooper" wrote in message ... Squirrels attacking my tomatoes. Even eating the green ones. Tried mothballs. Yeah right. Trapped and released one. Two more showed up this am. any ideas ASAP. I haven't had a ripe tomato in a week and I've got 15 plants. VR, Tom |
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Squirrels attacking my tomatoes. Even eating the green ones. Tried
mothballs. Yeah right. Trapped and released one. Two more showed up this am. any ideas ASAP. I haven't had a ripe tomato in a week and I've got 15 plants. VR, Tom |
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Go find some hot pepper powder and sprinkle the plants liberally with
it. Also, you might try feeding the squirrels something they will like better. Or, you can use a .410. ;-) Ray "tom hooper" wrote in message ... Squirrels attacking my tomatoes. Even eating the green ones. Tried mothballs. Yeah right. Trapped and released one. Two more showed up this am. any ideas ASAP. I haven't had a ripe tomato in a week and I've got 15 plants. VR, Tom |
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Ray wrote:
Go find some hot pepper powder and sprinkle the plants liberally with it. Also, you might try feeding the squirrels something they will like better. I tried hot pepper powder to keep the squirrels out of the bird feeders. Dangs things sat bold upright and laughed their butts off at me "while" munching on the newly flavored seed! I bought 2 Pestacators (sp) and one ultrasonic device for in the house for a rodent problem. The Pestacators plug into the wall and make a pulsing with the wires (?) and the ultrasonic device emits noise. One of the Pestacators also has an ultrasonic component. After I bought these devices, I did a little research and despite the general theory they don't work, they are proving to be effective for us. No rodents even the tree rodents anywhere near the house. I feed the blue jays peanuts every morning. I've watched the tree rodents come as far as the sidewalk then scatter the other way. They don't come into the yard! Either they don't like the rodent devices or they don't like the peanuts. My guess is on the rodent devices. Or, you can use a .410. ;-) DH component of one of our friend couples shot a squirrel as it was going up a tree. Seems he was ticked at the squirrel eating through his garden. Head was off but rest of body stuck to the tree with the claws dug straight into the bark. DW component was not impressed! DH component used a shovel to pry the carcus off the tree while the tramatized kids cried and DW yelled. Not good ;-) You'd be best to use a canon and make sure you get all of the tree rat to save your family from going through such a Kodak moment! Ray "tom hooper" wrote in message ... Squirrels attacking my tomatoes. Even eating the green ones. Tried mothballs. Yeah right. Trapped and released one. Two more showed up this am. any ideas ASAP. I haven't had a ripe tomato in a week and I've got 15 plants. VR, Tom |
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Ray wrote:
Go find some hot pepper powder and sprinkle the plants liberally with it. Also, you might try feeding the squirrels something they will like better. I tried hot pepper powder to keep the squirrels out of the bird feeders. Dangs things sat bold upright and laughed their butts off at me "while" munching on the newly flavored seed! I bought 2 Pestacators (sp) and one ultrasonic device for in the house for a rodent problem. The Pestacators plug into the wall and make a pulsing with the wires (?) and the ultrasonic device emits noise. One of the Pestacators also has an ultrasonic component. After I bought these devices, I did a little research and despite the general theory they don't work, they are proving to be effective for us. No rodents even the tree rodents anywhere near the house. I feed the blue jays peanuts every morning. I've watched the tree rodents come as far as the sidewalk then scatter the other way. They don't come into the yard! Either they don't like the rodent devices or they don't like the peanuts. My guess is on the rodent devices. Or, you can use a .410. ;-) DH component of one of our friend couples shot a squirrel as it was going up a tree. Seems he was ticked at the squirrel eating through his garden. Head was off but rest of body stuck to the tree with the claws dug straight into the bark. DW component was not impressed! DH component used a shovel to pry the carcus off the tree while the tramatized kids cried and DW yelled. Not good ;-) You'd be best to use a canon and make sure you get all of the tree rat to save your family from going through such a Kodak moment! Ray "tom hooper" wrote in message ... Squirrels attacking my tomatoes. Even eating the green ones. Tried mothballs. Yeah right. Trapped and released one. Two more showed up this am. any ideas ASAP. I haven't had a ripe tomato in a week and I've got 15 plants. VR, Tom |
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I put up a squirrel feeder filled with corn mixed 50/50 with sunflower seeds
in plain view if what I was trying to keep them out of (the bird feeder). It worked as long as the squirrel feeder contained goodies. When it got empty, they were at the bird feeder. Might work around your gardens also. Dwayne "tom hooper" wrote in message ... Squirrels attacking my tomatoes. Even eating the green ones. Tried mothballs. Yeah right. Trapped and released one. Two more showed up this am. any ideas ASAP. I haven't had a ripe tomato in a week and I've got 15 plants. VR, Tom |
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I put up a squirrel feeder filled with corn mixed 50/50 with sunflower seeds
in plain view if what I was trying to keep them out of (the bird feeder). It worked as long as the squirrel feeder contained goodies. When it got empty, they were at the bird feeder. Might work around your gardens also. Dwayne "tom hooper" wrote in message ... Squirrels attacking my tomatoes. Even eating the green ones. Tried mothballs. Yeah right. Trapped and released one. Two more showed up this am. any ideas ASAP. I haven't had a ripe tomato in a week and I've got 15 plants. VR, Tom |
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No. Feeding them doesn't help. It just attracts more. Moth balls
don't work, so now I will try hot pepper. Of course I have no red tomatoes left to get ripe, and three of my plants are dead. But I did live trap and relocate 4 of the critters per state rep. guidance. Worked really well. The rats love apples better than tomatoes. Boy, are they sure mean and nasty, and they stink...!!!!!! Thanks. Dwayne wrote: I put up a squirrel feeder filled with corn mixed 50/50 with sunflower seeds in plain view if what I was trying to keep them out of (the bird feeder). It worked as long as the squirrel feeder contained goodies. When it got empty, they were at the bird feeder. Might work around your gardens also. Dwayne "tom hooper" wrote in message ... Squirrels attacking my tomatoes. Even eating the green ones. Tried mothballs. Yeah right. Trapped and released one. Two more showed up this am. any ideas ASAP. I haven't had a ripe tomato in a week and I've got 15 plants. VR, Tom |
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"Glenna Rose" wrote in message news:fc.003d094101ce9c963b9aca00434c696a.1ce9ca6@p mug.org... writes: Squirrels attacking my tomatoes. Even eating the green ones. Tried mothballs. Yeah right. Trapped and released one. Two more showed up this am. any ideas ASAP. I haven't had a ripe tomato in a week and I've got 15 plants. VR, Tom Try live animal traps and re-locate them to a wild-life area. I take these to a large park on a lake near me. There they have food and water. Taking them early in the year (before August/September) gives them time to store for winter. Most squirrels will go right into the trap with a bait of sunflower seeds, walnuts or peanut butter. I say "most" because the apricot destroyer isn't interested in any of that. My best hope is that somewhere he will be become a roadside casualty. Glenna Live trap him and let him loose? http://www.backwoodsbound.com/zsquir.html http://www.bowhunting.net/susieq/squirrel.html http://www.scarysquirrel.org/recipes/ http://www.jerrysbaitandtackle.com/Recipes/Squirrel.htm http://www.huntingpa.com/Squirrel%20recipes.html http://www.ibiblio.org/ecolandtech/N...old/msg06308.h tml http://fooddownunder.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?q=squirrel http://www.gamecalls.net/wildgamerec...elrecipes.html |
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"Glenna Rose" wrote in message news:fc.003d094101cea1323b9aca00434c696a.1cea13c@p mug.org... writes: Live trap him and let him loose? Yeah. The only one that I'd like to see bite the big one is the apricot terror. I figure the worst that can happen is that they will become hawk/eagle food, but that is the natural order of things. Not likely to happen where I release them as there are ample trees, both nut and evergreen. However one ran back to the road which would have made him/her prime target for the soaring ones. I'll check out these web pages later. g http://www.backwoodsbound.com/zsquir.html http://www.bowhunting.net/susieq/squirrel.html http://www.scarysquirrel.org/recipes/ http://www.jerrysbaitandtackle.com/Recipes/Squirrel.htm http://www.huntingpa.com/Squirrel%20recipes.html http://www.ibiblio.org/ecolandtech/N...s/old/msg06308. h tml http://fooddownunder.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?q=squirrel http://www.gamecalls.net/wildgamerec...elrecipes.html They are squirrel recipes. Now, if you can come up with a way to get that apricot eating squirrel. Maybe you need to find a bait that tastes even better to him than apricots. Or, there is always the motion activated sprinkler mentioned in another thread. ;-) Ray |
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