You got that right. I don't have a garden, but the chipmunks here chewed a bunch of holes in the siding on my house. They weren't trying to get in, just eating the siding.
When I repainted the house, the remaining survivors appear not to like the taste of the paint and stopped with the chewing.
Wow, those are hunger chipmunks!!
Mine just make tunnel in my gardens, veggie and flower, and eat the plants from underneath!!
I also hate powdery mildew!! I have NO luck with squash, cucumbers, or melons. I get one or two, then the mildew hits and that’s the end. Keep rotating between raised beds, but that doesn’t help.