![]() So i found an old ceramic owl that came off some other glass piece or display, it's probably around 8-10 in tall, and i propped it up in a macrame hanger a foot or so about the main plants they were getting in and nothing touched them as long as it was there. ![]() Ive been battling birds and squirrels for the past 4 or so years ive been gardening at my place and this year i decided nothing was too dumb to try. So this is going to sound bizarre and you may have to tinker with it some but ive been using a ceramic owl and holographic pinwheels from dollartree. Anyway, wishing you the best of luck in your battle against the little scoundrels. I think I’m just resigned to the fact that I will continue to lose my crops to squirrels as my hatred for them grows into a black bottomless pit of despair lol. I refuse to cover my entire yard in chicken wire cages because of the aesthetic. The chicken wire suggestion is likely the most effective. I catch them with live traps and relocate to the woods, but there is so many fucking squirrels here that almost as soon as I dispatch one, another squirrel moves in and continues to wreak havoc. My blood boils every time I see one of those little assholes scampering about the yard. Woke up to find dozens of watermelon had been eaten off the vine. Last year, one of those little bastards decimated my entire watermelon harvest overnight. I have been at war with my neighbourhood squirrels for several years. Unfortunately indoors I don’t get enough direct light to make them happy, and the one place that’s close enough even with supplemental grow lights makes our house look like we are growing marijuana from the street. The pots currently look like a crown of thorns with dozens of bamboo skewers in each. ![]() Cayenne only worked for a couple days and even reapplying it didn’t help long term. If anyone has any other tricks up their sleeve I would welcome the advice. I know nature is going to nature, but they’re breeding next door in the roof of a derelict house that code won’t do anything about fixing. My carnivorous plants had a rough winter and finally were all healthy and bounced back beautifully. I don’t know if I’m just venting or if I’m seeking advice, or wanting to commiserate with other victims of squirrel brutality. I won’t use poison because that’s a terrible way to die and also I don’t want to injure or kill our resident mating pair of hawks. Even the screen porch isn’t safe because they’ve chewed through it and decimated my bird seed stores. There isn’t anywhere I can move the pots in the yard that they won’t attack. They don’t seem to be eating the traps (which I mean, are they even edible to rodents?) they’re just destroying them for no reason. Today I came out and they’d upended the entire contents of my pots and ripped all the traps off my VFTs and chewed holes in my sarracenias. Then they sheared off my flower spikes and left them all there to wither. They started with just digging holes in the muddy peat for usual squirrel reasons. Bamboo skewers, cayenne pepper, I even bought a live trap and stocked it with peanuts. r/SavageGarden's List of Carnivorous Plant Vendors r/SavageGarden's List of Carnivorous Plant Forums r/SavageGarden's List of Carnivorous Plant Societies Please read the rules before posting any sales, trades, or giveaways. Any posts that are not relevant to carnivorous plants will be removed. Talk about and share information and photos of carnivorous plants!įeel free to contact the moderators if you have any website or other suggestions! We sometimes miss dead links, so contact us if any of these links stops working!
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