Squirrels can be a serious nuisance in the garden. From digging up the garden, to burying nuts that sprout in the spring. They can be a huge issue! I will give you 5 tips to preventing squirrels in the garden in today’s episode.
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17 Comments
Changed chicken wire under my raised beds for hardware cloth (finer, thicker mesh, zinc coated). Gophers are through the chicken wire but not the mesh. For squirrels…. Get a fast dog with a strong prey drive. Tends to keep them at a distance. 😉
The squirrels burry peanuts in the shell in my garden all summer long
I find the best way to keep them out is to cover my beds
Alfred Hitchcock, the Birds
Last spring, something totally buried sunflower seeds all over our garden, even in our planters. By summer I had clumps of little sunflowers coming up everywhere!
This fall the squirrels have wreaked havoc, mostly around our subpod so I thought they were interested in our worms. We put out seed on the bird feeders and it really helped!
The squirrels and voles driving me crazy. I’m going to try pepper spray
I had the same issue with my garlic.
Also, each time I do anything with plants in a raised bed, something comes and dig.
I recently harvested some cilantros. The next time I checked out the plants, I found the entire area where I harvested was dug up and all the cilantros there were dead. Any tips?
The birds was by Alfred Hitchcock
I think maybe it was Alfred Hitchcock that made the movie "The Birds"?
Every winter I end up pulling trees out of my house plants that go outside in the summer lol
It's nut dropping season, all the squirrels be needing, need a big tree need a big tree need a big garden bed
I life trap and relocate them to the other side of the river
We have a guy in our neighborhood that is constantly walking around feeding the squirrels and chipmunks with shelled peanuts and walnuts. I am always finding plants dug up in the spring as they try to bury them. I use cayenne pepper flakes and have also had to cut chicken wire to fit in my pots to keep them out. It works but you have to keep up with the pepper. Im going to make a spray next year to see if that works better. Thanks for the tips!
So what do you do to discourage mice in the garden? Judy ❌⭕️🙏🏽♥️
sqirrels invited their possum friends over to our garden. We have enclosed the entire garden now with a chicken wire fence, including the roof.
Around here, the squirrels are being fed peanuts in the shell by neighbours, who don't seem to know/care how bad this is and how destructive squirrels can be if they get in your attic/garage, etc. They breed like mad. As they are used to being fed by people, they seem to dig anywhere they can smell humans have touched, so flower seedlings, bulbs, pretty much anything is fair game. Only thing that seems to help deter them is a combination of blood meal and chicken manure pellets, which keeps them off for long enough that the plants to settle and the human scent to wear off.
I have HW cloth under all my beds and it works great! If you're in the US, I recommend the 1/2" over the 1/4" since it's a heavier gauge.