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["Jim Fruth" <jfruth@tds.net>]

Mark Anger wrote:  "I planted some peach pits in fall 2006 or spring 2007 
(can't remember which)
and they never came up, although they weren't Siberian.  I know the
squirrels got some, maybe all of them.  Either way, I plan to try again.  If
it works in MO, it should work across the border."

Mark,
   There is a technique for planting nuts that the squirrels can't dig up.
   A fellow I know planted ten acres of Black Walnut and squirrels dug up 
every one of those nuts.  For his second (and final) attempt, he got a hold 
of a bunch of soup cans.  He cut a cross in the unopened end and turned the 
tabs up.  Planting the nuts normally, he inserted the cans (tabs up) over 
the planted nuts.  The varmint thieves stopped digging when they encountered 
the sharp, up-turned tin and none of the cans were totally unearthed.  By 
the time the trees needed the ( bole diameter) space, the cans had rusted 
away.

Jim Fruth
Brambleberry Farm
Pequot Lakes, MN  56472
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