My wife wakes up every morning to tend to her garden before work and every morning i hear the same thing. Her screaming about squirrels destroying her garden, and her begging me to go out and buy another plant to replace it while she is at work.
I have suggested and we've tried all sorts of pepper, squirrel deterrent granules, and even tried motion activated owl statues and sonic repellents. NONE of these have worked, and i have already spent about 100 dollars in saplings this year for my wife's replacements because we start them normally from seeds but since this year was so cold until recently and winter snaps, plus the squirrels i am afraid we will never have a garden again. The squirrels in my neighborhood seem to be unafraid of humans and attack our garden nightly, regardless of deterrent. I am willing to try anything for my wife and my sanity. I have heard of aluminum foil working, placing it over the soil and putting toothpick sized holes in it for water to drain... i don't know if this will work, but they struck again this morning and i am about to head out for 2 more replacement pepper plants because they destroyed my Chili and Habanero pepper plants.
My wife wakes up every morning to tend to her garden before work and every morning i hear the same thing. Her screaming about squirrels destroying her garden, and her begging me to go out and buy another plant to replace it while she is at work.
I have suggested and we've tried all sorts of pepper, squirrel deterrent granules, and even tried motion activated owl statues and sonic repellents. NONE of these have worked, and i have already spent about 100 dollars in saplings this year for my wife's replacements because we start them normally from seeds but since this year was so cold until recently and winter snaps, plus the squirrels i am afraid we will never have a garden again. The squirrels in my neighborhood seem to be unafraid of humans and attack our garden nightly, regardless of deterrent. I am willing to try anything for my wife and my sanity. I have heard of aluminum foil working, placing it over the soil and putting toothpick sized holes in it for water to drain... i don't know if this will work, but they struck again this morning and i am about to head out for 2 more replacement pepper plants because they destroyed my Chili and Habanero pepper plants.