Varmints in the garden

[220yotekiller]

Anyone have a good way to repel squirrels in a vegetable garden in town? They are eating us out of house and home lol. Most of the garden is in raised beds, I am thinking of trying bird netting but will that fix the problem?

 

[Wyoming270]

Try repellent granules on the perimeter

 

[Wyoming270]

Or trapping

 

[220yotekiller]

Or trapping

Thinking of using conibear traps a box but I have never been much of a trapper.

 

[wytex]

.22 with a Dead Air Mask, been working great for me and nope, the neighbors won't hear it.
Squirrels been eating our sunflowers and tried a tomato or two.
Now 3 less squirrels and the neighbors have no clue.
We live right in town too.

I do have chicken wire enclosures around all my raised beds, this year the squirrels started climbing them to get to the sunflowers. Chicken wire over the top helps with hail too.

I do catch them in a live trap to dispatch easier. You could easily relocate them from a live trap. I use the smaller version live trap, just big enough for the squirrels. Bait with what they are eating.

Good luck, squirrels do taste good, just sayin'.

 

[buckbull]

Live trap and dispatch discretely or relocate

 

[jimh406]

It depends on what's legal in your area.

You should be able to surround the areas they are attacking with chicken wire. It's cheap and available in many different widths and lengths. It will probably be worth electrifying it. Note: we don't have squirrels in our area.

 

[Jack Ryan]

Anyone have a good way to repel squirrels in a vegetable garden in town? They are eating us out of house and home lol. Most of the garden is in raised beds, I am thinking of trying bird netting but will that fix the problem?

TRaps and 410 shotgun.

 

[220yotekiller]

I am going to revamp the raised beds with chicken wire after we finish this year, some stuff is just to tall as of now, I hadn’t thought of it helping shield from hail. We got hammered a couple of years ago.

 

[Bc1992]

Pellet gun

 

[SaskHunter]

Rat traps with peanut butter on the trigger work really well. Get one with a wooden plate and strew/nail it on which ever tree or post they come down from. I've caught some pretty fat grey squirrels with them before. You can also set them on your raised bed. Big enough to get a squirrel but light enough that it would hurt a pet.