Nothing will help....I’m resigned to the fact that I’m growing produce for some a-hole squirrel.
Gramma gets one or two tho. That’ll do.
XD
On an earlier gardening thread I talked about our solution, a 10 gallon bucket. Fill halfway with water, float enough striped sunflower seeds on the top of the water to cover it. Set it next to something the vermin will climb up on. Have some cheap tongs ready to fish out the carcases. Between last fall and this year we have gotten dozens of squirrels, many more dozens of chipmunks and a good amount of mice.
“Nothing will help....I’m resigned to the fact that I’m growing produce for some a-hole squirrel.”
Get a cat for outside duty.
Back on the farm we kept cats at the barns and never had problems with squirrels, moles or possums.
Only thing the felines wouldn’t tackle was the occasional skunk.
At my present residence we had a resident ground hog.
The lady living in the house (I rented the built on apartment) wouldn’t let me kill it. Every year that hog raised Cain on the garden.
December four years ago the lady passed away.
That spring I introduced Mr Hog to Mr Mauser. Problem solved.
The mole problem we had was solved later that summer when we got a new neighbor whose cat free ranged each evening.
The squirrels...I just gave up and started feeding black oil sunflower seeds year round.