Re: [CH] #@$!* Chipmunks

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Squirrels & rabbits here.  The horrid desert squirrels.  And contrary to
popular belief, the squirrels DO eat hot stuff.  Especially young pepper
plants including the fruit.

I tried planting Marigolds in between the peppers, spraying with pepper
juice, the electric fence, DeCon (worked for a while).

Only thing that has worked so far for squirrels and/or rabbits is to cage
the pepper/tomato plants.  Instead of caging the critters, cage the plants.

My squirrels have eaten no less than 100 pounds of fruit off the apricot,
peach & apple trees this season, even with AOL cds hanging.  Flash tape
works for birds sorta, but not for rodents.

And our desert squirrels are supposed to becoming extinct?  Give me a very
big break.  Take my squirrel family of 100 or so, (PLEASE) and next spring
you will have no less than a thousand.

I tried feeding the dang things to keep them happy and out of my garden, but
they just reproduce.  The more healthy the critter, more babies.

Good luck.  and *sigh*

Suz in humid hot desert of California.

http://home.earthlink.net/~socalsuz

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