A squirrel has attacked two plastic based bird feeders. I managed to deterr
it by coating the base with grease (redundant flora margarine, then
vasilene) and cayenne pepper. The mixture washes off in the recent storms
but the squirrel does not try again for about a week. If you can get a cheap
source of pepper give it a go and combine it with grease to retard leaching.
I found in my old garden that they were very good at spotting small openings
in strawberry nets which had to be pinned thoroughly with bricks and rigid
canes.
Regards
David T
"nunya" wrote in message
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Gardening_Convert wrote:

I seem to have a problem with Squirrel's digging up and eating my
spring bulbs

Is there anything I can do to stop this ?

I have bought a Squirrel feeder this weekend and filled it with Peanuts
to try and distract them .

Cheers

Colin

it sounds to me like you are actually going to encourage them to hang
around. when you plant the bukbs you can plant them inside wire
cage/basket. you can sprinkle area and bulbs w/ red pepper powder.
i understand the frustration since one winter i lost 150 tulip bulbs to
voles. not a single plant survived. now i just stick to daffodils, which
they don't eat.
sherm

I am interested to collect as many ways as possible of deterring grey squirrels from damaging plants and eating bird seed - I'll be posting them on my anti-squirrel website Death to Grey Squirrels (www.deathtogreysquirrels.com) in due course. Please visit the website and add a comment on the Squirrel Forum there if you have any advice on this problem.

~Tufty, north London

It may not be appropriate if you've got a large area to cover, but I mulched my bulbs (in pots) with slate chips, it seems to make them invisible to our squirrels. They dug through everything else!

bob

I've just had a look at the cost of chicken wire to protect my plot and
I think I'll just take the risk of the damage !!

"david taylor" wrote in message
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I found in my old garden that they were very good at spotting small
openings in strawberry nets which had to be pinned thoroughly with
bricks and rigid canes.

In my garden they made *large* holes in stawberry nets or enviromesh -
just tore them to shreds. Our fruit cage is now covered with wire
netting. As for the bulbs - wire netting pegged down and covered with
a light mulch seems to work.
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Rod

My real address is rodtheweedygardeneratmyweedyisp
Just remove the weedy bits
and transplant the appropriate symbol at.