Re: meanest squirrel on earth
- To: <pumpkins@mallorn.com>
- Subject: Re: meanest squirrel on earth
- From: "* B* <v*@sprint.ca>
- Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1998 17:25:25 -0400
Hi Dan
I had the same problem . Could not shoot them because i live in town
so I filled the bird feeder with sunflower seeds and they left the pumpkins
alone.I now have a few growing.
Best of luck
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> From: Dan Shapiro <dgs@leland.stanford.edu>
> To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
> Subject: meanest squirrel on earth
> Date: July 27, 1998 2:55 PM
>
> I'm in the escalation phase of a pitched battle now, and I was wondering
if
> anyone on the list can help...
>
> Turns out a squirrel (I hope it is just one) in the nieghborhood has
> developed a taste for the tender ends of pumpkin vines, AND young female
> flowers. It is a hungry little devil too. It's consumed 4 females just
> before pollination, and about half a dozen vine ends so far. I've tried:
>
> (1) urinating round the patch
> (2) putting pepper spray on the vine ends and young female flowers
> (3) covering the flowers and vine ends with remay socks, and
> tenting the
> pollinated flowers.
> (4) a rat trap
> (5) a non-lethal squirrel trap
>
> So far, no luck. The remay protected the females, but the squirrel has
> just shifted its attentions to the vine exposed between the remay and
> ground. It ate the end off the main vine of my main plant this morning
and
> I am pissed.
>
> What are my next steps? A chicken wire fence? Any tricks to making it
> more effective, like curling the top foot out and away from the patch?
>
> I am the sort of guy who would consider high tech remedies too. Someone
> out there must have fantasized about this.... what did you come up with?
>
> Dan Shapiro
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