3/17/2024 0 Comments Fake squirrel catapult![]() ![]() I have heard of people who actually fill socks with them and leave them in the garden, so I assume a few moth balls will be fine, but be careful. If you have used something like this to deter squirrels, please leave your comments below and particularly your thoughts on the mothballs. I am going to make sure that I wash anything I bring in that is anywhere near them just to make sure. Since they don’t actually sit near the vegetables themselves, I felt they would probably be okay, but am still undecided. I only opened the box of them and could smell them for HOURS afterwards in the house. The smell of the moth balls was just horrible. Are these squirrel repellents safe for use? Thanks to the English bar maid at O’Malley’s Pub in Raleigh, NC. The hardest part for me was trying to find the condiment cups without buying 5000 of them at Sam’s club.Ī very nice person at a bar that my husband likes to go to with his friends took pity on him after three days of searching and gave him some for me to use. Very little cost (less than $5 for as many as you could use). I put mine in a new patch of summer squash, since I know they like them. Place the finished squirrel deterrents near the plants you think the squirrels might go after about every 8 feet or so. Tape the lid with scotch tape so it stays put. Plus not so smelly!Īdd three or four moth balls (if you wish to use them) and a liberal dose of cayenne pepper to the cups when you get to the place where you want to put them. It is easier to do this when they are in the garden than to put the stuff in the cups inside. If you have a problem with the moth balls being used, you could try just the cayenne pepper in the squirrel repellents to see if this will work. Take the moth balls, cayenne pepper and tape outside to your garden. Use a lot of hot glue and be patient.Īt this point, your trap is ready. Next, use the glue gun to attach the bamboo skewers to the bottom of the condiment cups and allow them to set. This allows the smell to escape which is what the squirrels supposedly do not like. Start out by punching holes all along the outer sides of the condiment cups. Moth balls can look like candy and children might be tempted by them.**** Check out this article for natural squirrel repellents. Also, this is not to be tried if you have animals or children in your garden. ****Please be aware that these squirrel repellents are, by no means, an organic gardening method. I am also learning as I experiment with gardening. Please note: The comment section below should be used in conjunction with this article. Be sure to consider this if you are an organic gardener. I decided to try a combination of #5 and #6 for these squirrel repellents, but I have reservations about them as listed at the end of the article. She told me I was lucky it was not a drought year, or I would have NOTHING left in my garden now that the squirrels have discovered it. I contacted a good friend of mine who also writes a garden blog. Make a spray of cayenne pepper – they hate it.“I love my squirrels and they know and never eat my veggies.”.“Feed them something else so they won’t get your vegetables”.I researched, and asked on my gardening page on Facebook for tips on how to keep the squirrels away. You can read about my squirrel disaster here.Īfter losing all my corn and much of my potential tomato harvest, I decided I had to do something. So, I planted 18 tomato plants thinking that would be more than enough.Īnd it was, until a few weeks ago. My family’s favorite vegetable is a ripe garden tomato and I wanted to make sure I had enough to last until the frost which is about late October here in NC. It appears that the squirrels were also proud of my efforts and decided to help themselves to the fruit. It doubled in size of it from the one I had last year and it is now over 1000 square feet. ![]() ![]() ![]() I must admit that I have been so proud of my vegetable garden this year. I decided to see what I could come up with to keep them away. The squirrels have made a mess of both my crop of tulips, and my vegetable gardening attempts, this year, in a big way. These DIY Squirrel Repellents were easy to make and did a pretty good job of keeping them out of my vegetable patch. ![]()
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