The sprays must be reapplied after rains. ![]() ![]() ![]() Others mix home-brew combinations that include capsaicin (the stuff in chili peppers that makes your mouth burn), peppermint oil, vinegar and other unpleasant-tasting ingredients, and they spray them around plants, but not actually on the plants they intend to eat. That's why some gardeners sprinkle cayenne pepper around their plants. Like many humans, squirrels don't like it when their lips and mouths burn. Many experienced gardeners, including those who produce the Farmer's Almanac, claim hot spices do the trick. Some top "targets" for squirrels: tomatoes, bulbs, sunflowers, beans, cucumbers, eggplants, squash, figs and really anything we might ourselves eat. And that means the war with pesky, persistent, athletic and quite intelligent squirrels is officially on. For it is gardening season and people are planting and tending their vegetables. No doubt, gardeners everywhere are reading the above words, nodding their heads even while steam casually escapes from their ears. if you have a family of squirrels around, it only takes one to learn the trick of breaking and entering and you can be sure that soon the whole family will be enthusiastic burglars." " "They can learn from another squirrel, or even from people, and they do it fast. "Squirrels are great learners: This is their great survival trick," wrote author Anne Wareham in the book " Outwitting Squirrels: 101 Cunning Stratagems to Reduce Dramatically the Egregious Effects of Garden Pests and Honest Advice Concerning Your Chances of Success. The fence in the background is what I try to launch the squirrels over.Squirrels aren't going anywhere, so if you want to keep them out of your prized garden, you have to get creative. You can see the trigger (string) that goes towards the house. The best part about this is that one of my neighbors is one of those animal rights people, and the look on his face was priceless when he asked me what "that thing out in the yard was" So far this year I have launched a total of 16 squirrels, but only 2 or 3 have made it over the fence into the neighbor's yard. ( not the safety of the squirrels, the safety of my father when he's stumbling around the yard ) The launch pad is covered with cracked corn, which squirrels seem to love. ![]() The string goes into the house through a window, so whenever I walk through the kitchen and I see a squirrel on the launch pad (the bricks) I can just pull the string from inside the house and he gets to go for a little ride The supports that hold the front of the slingshot are just lengths of rebar with tennis balls on top for safety. The trigger is a gate latch which has a string tied to it. The slingshot bands are made from 3/8" surgical tubing (about ten feet in length). It's a really simple contraption, and it also works quite well. This contraption hasn't killed a squirrel yet, and most of the squirrels come back for more.Īlright, this is the squirrel launcher that I mentioned in the "I are a redneck" thread. I don't want to hear all of that nonsense about hurting squirrels, after all they are just rats with bushy tails. First off, If you don't like the idea of launching squirrels across the yard, you should just click the back button right now.
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