[orsonwb]

I had posted a video I found yesterday about why you need to start a garden now, and saw several people reply about their problems with squirrels getting in their garden. Saw this video this morning and thought I'd post it. Good information about what works and what doesn't, even if it's a bit on the humorous side.

[ClearCase_guy]

I was about to read a different thread, but then I got distracted by this one.

[meowmeow]

Bfl...Squirrels. I hatz them. 🐿

[algore]

22lr

[Magnum44]

[dfwgator]

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

https://youtu.be/M5-d3rZZ-_M

😁

[Leaning Right]

I’m too lazy to watch the video. So instead I will share my anti-squirrel method. I just post the picture below in my garden. It keeps the squirrels away. It also works for rabbits, groundhogs, deer, etc.

Unfortunately, the picture also keeps me away. I haven’t gone near my garden in years.

[Roadrunner383]

My Dad gave me a JC Higgins single shot .410 when I was young. It worked very well on taking down squirrels out of oak trees. A similar gun will keep squirrels out of gardens, and provide a tasty meal as well (fried squirrel is excellent).

[Repeal The 17th]

Easy Peasy.
I have 3 outdoor cats.

[Myrddin]

I have 2 apple trees, an apricot tree, a cherry tree, an Italian plum and a pear tree. Some years, I have little production due to weather. In recent years, I had pretty good fruit going and hoped to leave it on the trees to become ripe and sweet. The squirrels took it all. My neighbors feed them, so they remain fat and able to decimate my fruit trees. I put bird netting on the cherry tree and protected a half quart of good fruit. The Italian plum usually yieds 2 or 3 bushel baskets. This year, only pits under the tree.

I have strawberries in the front garden. Most years, it's only a quart of fresh berries. Less last year, but some good ones.

[FamiliarFace]

Squirrels don’t do anywhere near the damage to my garden as the chipmunks, rabbits, and deer do.

[clockwise]

Have a Heart trap plus a pellet gun.

[Little Pig]

To sum up, for anyone who doesn’t care to watch 6 minutes of pointless rambling about what *didn’t* work:

Homeowner eventually surrendered his fruit trees to the squirrels, and build cages over his raised vegetable beds.

Doesn’t sound like a successful outcome to me.

[Wuli]

Nearly seven minutes just to say - cage your garden beds!!!!

Typical of what gets advert clicks on Youtube today - long winded shpeels that keep you waiting and waiting for the speaker to just get to the dam point. Hate that kind of crap.

[Paal Gulli]

Don’t keep them out, invite them in, then KILL AND EAT THEM.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFitQn0W-Ns

A decent air rifle is more than up to the task. My neighbors can’t hear the noise and a tin of 500 of the best pellets is only $15. I also use a “live trap” positioned among my fruit and nut trees because I can’t shoot them when they’re hiding among the leaves of a fruiting tree. When there are rats enough caught in the cage I carry it out of sight of prying eyes and dispatch them with the same airgun.

Skin and gut them and freeze the otherwise intact carcass until you have accumulated enough to make an entire meal from.

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

Get wrapped bubble gum from the dollar store and leave it around for the squirrels, rats, chipmunks to enjoy, at least for awhile.

[DCBryan1]

suppressed .22LR. Shoot them, freeze them, eat them....or leave them out as warning to others ;)

[ZinGirl]

That was hysterical

I grease up bird feeder poles with Crisco. It only lasts for a few days when I have to do it again but OH THE JOY in watching them jump onto the pole and sliiiiide down. It’s worth it.