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>> 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
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>> 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.
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>> Greg
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> I tried fox urine-- "shake it" product, but seemed to have no effect.

One effect, your garden will really smell bad. Can't say for sure, but my
groundhog vanished.

Greg