"gregz" > wrote in message
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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
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>>>>>> 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


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