On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 07:56:54 -0700 (PDT), Nancy2
> wrote:

>On Jun 25, 2:12*am, spamtrap1888 > wrote:
>> On Jun 24, 11:29*pm, "Somebody" > wrote:
>>
>> > I was coming down the driveway this afternoon and the damn squirrel ran past
>> > me, with a green tomato in it's mouth. *One of my tomatoes... Anyone ever
>> > built a tomato cage to keep squirrels out? *I think that is the only hope...
>> > I have tried: *chicken wire, wolf urine, plastic snakes, tin foil on string.
>> > Nothing keeps the evil vermin away.
>>
>> > I read somewhere last year, the only fool proof thing is a cage over the
>> > plant with a lid that can be opened and clasped closed. *I love fresh
>> > tomatoes and am not growing them for some very rude squirrels. *If I can't
>> > have them, I will take the plants out.
>>
>> How the heck did the squirrel get through chicken wire?
>
>That was my question. Chicken wire will keep out rabbits and
>squirrels. Maybe it wasn't high enough.

Rabbits can't climb but with squirrels it wouldn't matter were it
fifty feet high... haven't you ever watched squirrels climb a tree,
they can easily scoot to the top of utility poles and traverse wires
pole to pole better then the Walendas. To keep squirrels out the top
of a chicken wire cage would need to be pinched shut. That's how I
keep the crows from my blueberries, only I drape netting over ordinary
cages that I make large enough to lift off the plant for
harvesting.... there are infinite ways to cage plants from critters,
only limited by ones imagination