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["BRYCE RUDDOCK" <bruddockjr@wi.rr.com>]

        Regarding squirrels prematurely harvesting apricots:
Try the netting used to repel birds. It confuses the squirrels for a while. I 
had 2 apricot trees and it helped til the trees got too tall. Eventually I 
cut down the apricots and planted dogwood trees. The only other answer than 
putting a barrier {netting} between the squirrels and their chosen food of 
the moment is to harvest the squirrels. I will be doing that this year as the 
furry little tree rats are digging up every thing we plant and eat all the 
hazel nuts before they get a chance to ripen. The hazels are too tall to keep 
netting. You could also trap and relocate the squirrels assuming that there 
is not an excess of them in your area already which would keep you busy 
forever. Harvesting the squirrels is looking better everyday and isn't 
obtaining a yield one of the permaculture rules?
                 Bryce Ruddock in South Milwaukee , WI

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Michael Levine, who taught an organic fruit growing class I just took, had 
the same problem, and he uses a "scarecrow": a sprinkler fitted out with a 
motion detector, so when a squirrel approaches the tree, the sprinkler comes 
on.  He says it works really well.  Just google "sprinkler scarecrow" and a 
bunch will come up -

  Kris
  new permie in ann arbor

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From: "Golden Love"
Subject: [permaculture] Apricots and squirrels
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A squirrel is knocking off apricots from my tree that is espaliered to a
fence in the back yard garden. Any ideas on how to keep it from damaging
more of my apricots before they are ripe?

Golden Love
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Hi,

     Do you mean as regards putting down cardboard with mulch and dirt on in
(lasagna gardening) to kill "weed" roots, to establish a new garden area?

     I did that and the two beds I made that way turned out just great.
The previous roots were gone by spring (even though I didn't get to the 
project
till early December!), and the soil looked excellent.   The beds produced
wonderfully.

     Shivani in WI


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