On 6/25/2012 8:17 AM, John Kuthe wrote:

> Years ago my father made chicken wire chimneys to protect his tom,atos
> from maurading squirrels and it worked wonderfully! He made hooks out
> of the chicken wire to keep the cylindrical chimneys closed and he'd
> unhook then to open the chimney abnd harvest the tomatos. We had a
> prodigeous amount of non-squirrel-eaten-on tomatoes that year!


I have yet to meet a squirrel that couldn't get most if not all of
itself through the relatively large openings of chicken wire. Rat wire,
on the other hand, will keep out everything of the rodent persuasion.