"Michael" > wrote in message =
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> "Musashi" > wrote in message
> om...
> My green shiso has just about completely died. My wife already took =
some
> tops for shio-zuke.
> I was waiting for the rest of the seeds to fall naturally
> as they do each year, giving me an automatic crop next summer.
> Yesterday I found 2 squirrels in the shiso patch, breaking the
> stems and eating the seed tops. I have never seen this before.
> I hope I still get a crop next summer.
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> New one on me. They eat my pecans about as fast as they can but so =
far no
> shiso. They actually climb the trees and knock them down.
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Well since my posting, the squirrels have chopped off the remaining =
standing shiso
plants at about "squirrel head height" and have eaten most of the seeds.
Yesterday the junkos (snowbirds) arrived and they too started eating the =
shiso seeds
that the squirrels missed.

Musashi