Bryan > wrote:
> On Jun 25, 12:19 pm, Brooklyn1 <Gravesend1> wrote:
>> On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 07:56:54 -0700 (PDT), Nancy2
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>>> On Jun 25, 2:12 am, spamtrap1888 > wrote:
>>>> On Jun 24, 11:29 pm, "Somebody" > wrote:
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>>>>> 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.
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>>>>> 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.
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>>>> How the heck did the squirrel get through chicken wire?
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>>> That was my question. Chicken wire will keep out rabbits and
>>> squirrels. Maybe it wasn't high enough.
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>> 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
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> I built a cage from PVC pipe and plastic netting for my blackberries.
> It is 100% effective.
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> --Bryan

I had something taking a couple tomatoes up yard. I have to watch deer,
ground hogs, squirrels, and raccoons. I started using fox urine last year.

Greg