Two years ago the squirrels had most of our strawberry crop, so we had
a fruit cage made by a local blacksmith (the same price as Agriframes
but much stronger. Last year we had a complete glut of strawberries.

Yesterday morning, I discovered that the squirrels were gnawing
through the plastic netting nag getting, letting the blackbirds and
thrushes in as well. I spent two hours in the rain fitting chicken
netting round the base, so now we hall have to see if they climb up
that and attack from higher up. might be time for the trap!

Jonathan

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Two years ago the squirrels had most of our strawberry crop, so we had
a fruit cage made by a local blacksmith (the same price as Agriframes
but much stronger. Last year we had a complete glut of strawberries.

Yesterday morning, I discovered that the squirrels were gnawing
through the plastic netting nag getting, letting the blackbirds and
thrushes in as well. I spent two hours in the rain fitting chicken
netting round the base, so now we hall have to see if they climb up
that and attack from higher up. might be time for the trap!

Jonathan

Don't fix the top of the netting, so if they do climb up it, their weight
will cause it to fall outwards.

Mike


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On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 23:20:21 -0700, tredingtonmill wrote:

might be time for the trap!

Yep. No 4 Fenn trap from your local gunsmith. Cook as for rabbit.
Delicious.

Prefer them as paté personally

On Jun 13, 7:20*am, wrote:
Two years ago the squirrels had most of our strawberry crop, so we had
a fruit cage made by a local blacksmith (the same price as Agriframes
but much stronger. Last year we had a complete glut of strawberries.

Yesterday morning, I discovered that the squirrels were gnawing
through the plastic netting nag getting, letting the blackbirds and
thrushes in as well. I spent two hours in the rain fitting chicken
netting round the base, so now we hall have to see if they climb up
that and attack from higher up. might be time for the trap!

Jonathan

Forget the trap, there'll be other squirrels and no fruit. Wire
netting is the only answer, squirrels will destroy anything else if
there's cherries or strawberries on the other side

"Derek Turner" wrote in message
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On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 23:20:21 -0700, tredingtonmill wrote:

might be time for the trap!

Yep. No 4 Fenn trap from your local gunsmith. Cook as for rabbit.
Delicious.

That's the answer, but I've never caught one which had enough meat on it to
make it worth while cooking!

Alan

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(Rod) wrote:

Forget the trap, there'll be other squirrels and no fruit.

Depends. My experience of killing squirrels suggests that a cull can be
effective for quite a few years

Steve Harris - Cheltenham - To get my real address, remove one fruit

On Jun 16, 11:43*pm, (Steve Harris)
wrote:
In article
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(Rod) wrote:
Forget the trap, there'll be other squirrels and no fruit.

Depends. My experience of killing squirrels suggests that a cull can be
effective for quite a few years

Steve Harris - Cheltenham - To get my real address, remove one fruit

Make a simple cheap dismantleable low cage from builders' roofing
battens and wire netting. Job's done and it stays done.

Rod

"Rod" wrote in message
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On Jun 16, 11:43 pm, (Steve Harris)
wrote:
In article
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(Rod) wrote:
Forget the trap, there'll be other squirrels and no fruit.

Depends. My experience of killing squirrels suggests that a cull can be
effective for quite a few years

Steve Harris - Cheltenham - To get my real address, remove one fruit

Make a simple cheap dismantleable low cage from builders' roofing
battens and wire netting. Job's done and it stays done.

Rod

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