wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) (07/22/85)
What do you container gardeners do to keep squirrels from digging in your containers? I have a couple boxes we grow stuff in; 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 -- then, as soon as I left off the screens, squirrels dug in and destroyed a couple plants (so far). (They don't seem to be interested in eating the plants -- they like to dig in the soft dirt and the plants get dug up as a side effect.) Of course, the obvious answer is squirrel stew, but I do sort of like the critters, and the wife objects to this solution. I would think it is 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. They don't seem easily intimidated, like by blowing paper or rattling pie-tins, so I haven't tried those (which I commonly see around gardens). Advice? Regards, Will Martin UUCP/USENET: seismo!brl-bmd!wmartin or ARPA/MILNET: wmartin@almsa-1.ARPA
nemo@rochester.UUCP (Wolfe) (07/23/85)
> What do you container gardeners do to keep squirrels from digging in > your containers? > Will Martin Human hair. I'm trying it now in little bags on the pear tree to try to keep a couple around long enough to mature. I'll let you know how it works. Nemo -- Internet: nemo@rochester.arpa UUCP: {decvax, allegra, seismo, cmcl2}!rochester!nemo Phone: [USA] (716) 275-5766 work, 232-4690 home USMail: 104 Tremont Circle; Rochester, NY 14608 School: Department of Computer Science; University of Rochester; Rochester, NY 14627