On Jun 25, 9:53*am, Pennyaline >
wrote:
> 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.

A squirrel could not get through the holes in the chicken wire I have.

N.