Gardening With Squirrels

By on June 7, 2023

Our backyard truly belongs to the Mafia Squirrels. They run the show. They decide what lives or doesn’t live.

But we’ve figured out a few tricks to increase the odds our vegetables and other plants will survive.

If I’m planting seeds in a planter/container, I leave a gap between the soil and the top of a planter/container. Once the seeds are planted, I cover the top with wire netting/fencing, pinning it in place with sticks (so the squirrels can’t knock it off). The squirrels are unable to easily access the soil so they leave it alone.

I stick sticks or branches in the soil around bigger plants (like the tomatoes), creating a little fence. Again, this blocks access to the actual plant. And our squirrels DO dig up tomato plants.

(Tomato cages don’t stop the squirrels. The gaps are too large.)

I walk around the garden a couple times a day and replant dug up plants. Usually if I replant them right away, they will survive.

Hot pepper flakes or sauce WILL keep the squirrels away but only for a short time.


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