I have put metal bands around the trunk but they jump over it. I have placed small fencing around the papaya tree to stop them from eating the fruit from the top. Once I placed metal screen around the fruit. I have put metal bands around the telephone poles to stop them from climbing and then jumping on to my trees.
2007-01-15 01:46:39 · 7 answers · asked by shadypa 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Other - Home & Garden
I'm sorry, but unless you are willing to go to extreme measures, you can't keep the squirrels away. What I have found is to disract them ... place out some deer corn, a distance away from the trees. Maybe they will flock there instead.
I always garden with life's critters in mind. I grow corn in my garden, not for myself but to distract the raccoons from my tomatoes. I consider it a bonus if they leave me a cob. Sometimes, feeding the critters something else instead does the trick. And sometimes you simply lose, like the year I lost an entire crop of cabbage to a very hungry woodchuck (it was a drought year, and he simply would have died without my garden). Sorry, but I am not an advocate of killing the critters who are simply trying to live their lives -- the squirrels don't know those are YOUR trees!
2007-01-15 02:43:55 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Get a lawn chair and a beer. Set up the lawn chair about 20 feet from the fruit source. Open the beer, have a sip. Have more sips. Once you finish the beer, go get another one and while you're up, grab that small pellet rifle from the garage.
Load the rifle, open the second beer. When the squirrels arrive, shoot them. Always point and shoot at the squirrels in the direction of the home where your least favourite neighbour lives.
If you hit the neighbour by mistake, you can blame the beer and get a small fine or probation in court. If you haven't had the beer, you are in big doo doo with the judge. Judges like people that are apparently stupid. If you act this way (as I assume you are NOT stupid) they will go easier and you also have rid of your squirrels and one least favourite neighbour.
2007-01-15 01:57:02 · answer #2 · answered by 6kidsANDalwaysFIXINGsomething 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
well you can put a small radio out there and turn it on . The noise will keep them away . You can also call up your nursery's and ask what they would suggest too . If there is any products out for this . grandpa would keep a radio under a bucket in our melon patch to keep the coyotes away and the gophers . It worked extremely well . His choice was always the Larry king show lol . Choose a station that has talk shows on it or something like rush limba or whatever . good luck .
2007-01-15 01:56:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-07 04:42:45 · answer #4 · answered by Erika 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
buy an inexpensive single shot .22, and eat the squirrels! after all you've spent fattening them up, a little squirrel gravy shore does taste good on a cold winter morning.
2007-01-15 02:00:10 · answer #5 · answered by geezer 51 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
bury a car battery in the yard close to the tree.
attach copper cables to your metal bands around
the tree.
they have a switch run to your house.
as the squirrels clinb the tree
flip the switch.
watch and see what happens..........
2007-01-15 01:51:49 · answer #6 · answered by rottentothecore 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
try adding a greaser to the equation they might slid right back down... if that doesn't work, my buddies mom used to fry them. so.. so sad.
2007-01-15 01:51:11 · answer #7 · answered by kMac969 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋