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

I built a cage from PVC pipe and plastic netting for my blackberries.
It is 100% effective.

--Bryan