What can I do to keep squirrels out of my garden?
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Try sprinkling soap shavings around your garden, once they get a mouthful, theyll be grossed out and leave!
Apply blood meal,make sprays with hot pepper and garlic
Chicken wire or barbed wire strips, they can be painted partially covered with mulch. Critters gone.
I stock up on Cayenne Pepper from the Dollar Store, and sprinkle it all over whatever I don't want animals to feed on. Works great, and if I see the squirrels again, weeks later, I simple sprinkle some more .
For all my flowers, in the ground and in hanging pots, and in all the window boxes, I have used it.
The pepper mixes into the soil, and they quickly learn NOT to dig or eat in there again.