Urinate around the perimeter of your vegetable patch - it is an effective deterrent to most forms of wildlife including cats and dogsI have a vegetables garden, and hundreds of squirrels. How can I keep them from eating everything?
Sprinkling crushed red pepper flakes will keep squirrels out by day and rats out by night. I get the big container from the wholesale club, you know the one I mean?
You'll have to refresh it every few days. Sprinkle around the perimeter and down the rows
Remember to Feed The Squirrels, away from your garden.
feed them . set out some feeders and in the garden put out some pie pans on poles and string . but feed them they are hungry and your garden is food . if you feed them they will keep the birds away and snakes . so be a true friend to nature and remember only you can feed a squirrel
Theres a couple things you can do....
Tie pie pans ( the disposable kind) on strings around the garden.. they bang and reflect which scares them.
Have someone pee around it ( they'll smell it and see it as a territorial markings of a larger animal) Sometime HAIR clippings in stockings works too.
OR buy a battery operated water proof radio and leave it on in the garden.. the noise will scare them.
Or do all the above.
You won't be able to as you have far too many squirrels in your area. An abundance of food and lack of predators is the cause of this.
So you have to control them yourself. The best method of control is with a Kania Trap 2000. You can google it.
spray plants with red pepper spray
you can make your own by putting 1 cup crushed red peppers(ground up is better) into 1 gallon of boiling water.
let it sit until cooled, strain our chunks, add 1tsp of dish soap.
place mothballs near target plants.
hang fabric softener sheets around perimeter.
spray ammonia on the ground near the plants
make sure acorns and other natural foods are not dropping into or near your garden.
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