![]() ![]() You just spray it around the perimeter of your garden. The sprays must be reapplied after rains. Others mix home-brew combinations that include capsaicin (the stuff in chili peppers that makes your mouth burn), peppermint oil, vinegar and other unpleasant-tasting ingredients, and they spray them around plants, but not actually on the plants they intend to eat. That's why some gardeners sprinkle cayenne pepper around their plants. Like many humans, squirrels don't like it when their lips and mouths burn. Many experienced gardeners, including those who produce the Farmer's Almanac, claim hot spices do the trick. Some top "targets" for squirrels: tomatoes, bulbs, sunflowers, beans, cucumbers, eggplants, squash, figs and really anything we might ourselves eat. And that means the war with pesky, persistent, athletic and quite intelligent squirrels is officially on. For it is gardening season and people are planting and tending their vegetables. No doubt, gardeners everywhere are reading the above words, nodding their heads even while steam casually escapes from their ears. if you have a family of squirrels around, it only takes one to learn the trick of breaking and entering and you can be sure that soon the whole family will be enthusiastic burglars." " "They can learn from another squirrel, or even from people, and they do it fast. "Squirrels are great learners: This is their great survival trick," wrote author Anne Wareham in the book " Outwitting Squirrels: 101 Cunning Stratagems to Reduce Dramatically the Egregious Effects of Garden Pests and Honest Advice Concerning Your Chances of Success. then out came the hacksaw.Squirrels aren't going anywhere, so if you want to keep them out of your prized garden, you have to get creative. it was loud, and scared me, lucky nothing happend to me. it ripped three splits exactly 120 degress aprat from oneanother, splits were about a foot long, and it peeled back. well the next shot, you can guess what happened. well, i didn t realize, a tiny bit of mud, got into the end of the barrel from poking at the possum. i shot a family of possums that i flooded out, and i used the end of the barrel to roll one of the parents over to show my little brother what the gun did to it. ![]() what happened was exactly what you see on cartoons, when the barrel bannana peels. Then when i 'd irrigate, theyd come out of there holes and i'd shoot them, until one day i blew the shotgun up. I'd shoot as i drove the tractor, but it only took a day for them to figure out the tractor kills. my squirrels were never afraid of the tractor, so i drilled a hole int the hood for a eye bolt for the barrel of a cheap single shot 12 ga, and a rubber snubber across the hood to hold down the stock. the things catch on real quick about guns. Shooting them pretty much only gives you satisfaction. now would be a good time to do it being they are pregnant ofr have babaies. After you roll them down the hole, you cover up the tops of the holes, and the pellet gives off poisenous gas. you roll them down the hole after you irrigate or when the ground is wet, being they activate from moisture. Its a big pellet about the size of a brussel sprout. you'll have to buy it from a farmer who has a permit to get it. ![]() Its been years since i farmed, but when i did, the most effective thing i found was something called phostoxin.
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