RE: Acorn Squash and Squirrels
When should acorn squash be harvested. Am I supposed to wait until the
vines started to die back?
Thanks,
Sue
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Meconella@aol.com [SMTP:Meconella@aol.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 1999 1:00 AM
> To: veggie-list@eskimo.com
> Subject: Re: Acorn Squash and Squirrels
>
> In a message dated 9/21/99 7:37:17 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
> williams1@ameritech.net writes:
>
> << However, it appears the squirrels have taken a bite of each one. I was
> wondering if anyone had successfully kept these critters from sampling
> theirs? >>
>
> I only have ground squirrels here, and they dont seem to bother too much.
> I
> did have a human rodent come into my very own private front yard and
> harvest
> for themselves, without my permission, my whole crop of butternut
> squash.
> Every dang one. I am so dissappointed about that. I didnt have too many,
>
> but it would have been nice (?) to leave just one for me so I could have
> tasted the fruits of my labor.
>
> I would rather have had the squirrels eat them.
>
> Janet.
