Free Online Article Directory. For Article Authors & Publishers
How Do I Get Rid of Squirrels in My Vegetable Garden?
Continuing our series on annoying animals in the vegetable garden, we move on to those lovely of lovely rodents the squirrel. Forget about a fence and aluminum pie tins for these animals. They will climb over the fence and probably use the aluminum pie tin as a plate for all the fruits and vegetables they are going to steal from your garden. Here are some solutions you can give a try that are safe, realistic and work.
Rubber Snake
Do you have a dollar store or an inexpensive toy store near your house? Then you should definitely take a trip there and pick up some realistic looking garden snakes. A number of fellow vegetable gardeners on our vegetable gardening Facebook fan page suggested that using rubber snakes really works. Every morning go to the garden and move them in a different location to confuse the squirrels. It is an inexpensive and safe way to deter squirrels from your garden. Just don't scare the kids with them.
Blood Meal
It is dry powdered blood and is normally used in adding nitrogen to the soil. However, blood meal also serves as a pretty good deterrent to a rodent like the squirrel. Usually derived from cattle blood, squirrels (and rabbits) sense sort of danger when blood meal is around and avoid the area. By spreading blood meal over your garden, you can add nitrogen to your soil and deter the squirrels.
Alternative Food
Some may not agree with this method, but many do use it and that is to feed the squirrels at the other end of your yard. My father used this tactic all the time and it seemed to work for him. He would feed the squirrels on one end of the yard, as far away from his garden as possible, so that they would go there and never actually get to his fruits and vegetables. You can set a simple pie tin with peanuts in it to feed them.
I believe using a combination of all three of these methods will work wonders for you especially if you have problems with squirrels in your home vegetable garden. You can get the rubber snakes at the dollar store, the blood meal at your local garden center and peanuts at your supermarket. All three are very inexpensive and easy to implement.
As a side note, avoid using poison. Not only is it inhumane but really unnecessary, expensive and dangerous. You could possibly kill other animals besides the squirrels.
Give the three previously mentioned options a go today, and you will be well on your way to a healthy and squirrel free home vegetable garden.
Author Resource:-
About the Author Mike is the author of the book "Vegetable Gardening for the Average Person" and the administrator for the largest vegetable gardening group on Facebook. Mike can be reached via his website AveragePersonGardening.com.
There are actually various giant hogweed eradication methods but there's no single method that will do the job alone. Often, a minimum of two(2) solutions are being used for higher chances of effectiveness. Severing is amongst the widely applied techniques in preventing the spread or killing off of hogweed. Just like many other plants, it grows by its roots and propagates through its seeds. Therefore slicing the roots seems to be the best solution, but this by itself does not guarantee success.
The days are getting a little longer. In our Zone 5, Western New York neck of the woods, the sap is running. The arrowwood shrubs are red. The willow twigs are bright yellow. Snowdrops have been peaking through. It can only mean one thing. Spring will be here soon.
The charm of country living is found in the rustic garden furniture. One of many big reasons individuals tend to love rustic garden furniture is as a result of it's usually not made in a manufacturing facility .The rustic garden furniture is exclusive with chairs, tables, benches, and arbors that depict early America.
Many times when people get ready to select a floral gift from their local Santa Rosa florists shop for someone that they care about they have a hard time determining exactly what that person would like best.
A business is more than just an office space. It is made up of ideas, hard work and determination. However, having an appropriate office space goes a long way towards creating the image you need to project to your clients and customers.
You can give an arrangement of sympathy flowers Portland designers help you create. The loss of a loved one is tough to deal with, and expressing your feelings is often difficult.
We sometimes wonder when we look at trees and say, I wonder what kind of tree that is? The proper way to identify different variations is by looking at their leaves.
The Red Maple tree is one of the most commonly found trees in North America. It is known for its ability to grow under nearly any conditions, as well as its beautiful leaf colors. These trees are often used in landscaping designs in street landscaping, parks, homes, and community centers.
Springtime brings about a huge variety of newly budding plants. A walk through a flower garden will reveal plants that are common and easily identified by just looking at them.
![[Valid RSS feed]](http://www.articlelisted.com/images/icon_Rss.png "XML Feed For RSS"){kind=icon}
Bruce Tucker's Author Feed
Print This Article
Add To Favorites 