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[Kevin Moore <aleguy33@yahoo.com>]

A pellet gun should prove effective for squirrels, but you might limit yourself to shooting them when they are low to the ground to preserve your neighbors' windows. If you want to use rocks, you might consider an old-fashioned sling. The kind you swing around, not the elastic kind, though that might work too.

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From: Melissa Kacalanos <mijwiz@yahoo.com>
To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 4:08:52 PM
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] deer-resistant plants


I stand corrected about thorns on clove currants. I
guess I just assumed they had thorns since they're
related to gooseberries.

This area is too populous for anyone or anything to
hunt deer, so I think the only limit to their
population is food. I even suspect them of eating my
hellebores.

I just know I'll start hating various fruit-eating
cute critters once these plants start fruiting. Bird
netting sounds easy enough, but I don't know what I'll
do about wilier critters. I remember my dad trying to
grow apples in NYC. He built a metal cage around each
apple, which the squirrels pried open anyway, so we
never got a single apple.

Squirrel stew sounds tasty, but is there any way of
harvesting them without disturbing the neighbors? A
friend of mine threw a rock at a rabbit in his garden,
just trying to scare it away, and was shocked to find
that he'd killed it. Maybe I should practice throwing
rocks.

Melissa


     
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