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Default Joy of cooking squirrels

In article >,
(Curly Sue) wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 14:01:02 GMT, "James Silverton"
> > wrote:
>
> >Hello, All!
> >
> >I was pleased to see that the latest "The Joy of Cooking" as
> >displayed in Barnes and Noble yesterday still has instructions
> >for cooking squirrels. Personally, I favor feeding them to foxes
> >or anything else that will eat them.

>
> Not me. They're so cute. I love watching them play in the yard and
> eat peanuts. Yes, they dig up the flowers I plant, but in their
> universe I'm the disruptor. (But a benevolent one, inasmuch as I give
> them the peanuts).


Cover your flower bed with 2" chicken wire then mulch over it.
The flowers will grow thru the wire and it prevents digging by rodents.
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