To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: [NAFEX] fixes for squirrel problems? tried animal psychic
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 10:31:55 -0400
Title: My VistaPrint Electronic Business Card
We had one peach tree with fruit. I had been
nursing it with Serenade (bactilis subtilis) for peach leaf curl. I
tried Neem but Serenade works better for me, here in zone 5. Squirrels
were stealing peaches every day and leaving them around the yard. I
was watching my tree get denuded of fruit and branches broken!!
After painting my peach tree with cayene pepper and having with an animal
psychic talk to the squirrels { she aggreed with my observations that the
squirrels were just playing with the peaches, stealing them and not even
eating them- "it's a game"; "it's fun" she said they said. The
animal psychic said that squirrels see all our responses to them as a game for
them to beat us at. }, I too might be driven to extreeme
mesures such as squirrel soup (and I am a vegetarian!) to stop them.
I am now entertaining ideas of spraying the next years
crop and the few apples we have left with a soap and dried
blood, and maybe cayene pepper, mixture to try to keep them from
stealing the rest of the apples. The trees are too close
together to use a pipe around the trunk -the squirrels can jump from tree to
tree.
Anyone know of any thing else that might taste terrible
and even better smell toxic to them? I have already killed a service berry with
"deer off"- so I am hesitant to use this.
thank you! and will try the water trick with the hornets- we have
a nest right at the front door.
Dianne Stephany, zone 5, Rochester NY with 67 degree weather, but no
rain; even the weeds are wilting.