kolling@decwrl.UUCP (Karen Kolling) (07/24/85)
> What do you container gardeners do to keep squirrels from digging in > your containers?... I recently put in some squash plants, and covered > them with old screens until the plants got big enough to be restricted > and bent over... too late now to get plastic over the dirt -- to get it > over the plants would leave such big holes in the plastic that it wouldn't > do any good. You can do it with screening, but you need tin snips -- to cut in from one side to the center, so you can slide the screening in sideways rather than trying to get something down over the top of the plant. Of course, you can also use the tin snips to make a bit of a hole in the center for stems. Works for keeping bluejays from digging in pots, anyway. Karen