Squirrels

All I can think of is a portable green house with a door. Home Depot and has them.

Once I planted tomatoes bushes. I watered, sprayed, protected and pampered them so much ... that my family called them "moms $50 tomatoes." But they were soooooo delicious.

Use moth balls/disk around the outside of your garden or hang above it. Mint planted in containers, not in the garden since it would take over your garden, set the containers around IN the garden.

Sprinkle cayenne pepper around the plants. We are trying this trick this year which was given to us by a horticulturist. Also you can mix 2 cups water, 1 T Dawn and 1T cayenne in a spray bottle. Shake until it turns red. Let bubbles settle and then spray Plants. We were told anything with a wet nose will not touch the plants. Hope this helps.

do not use moth balls......Plant a castor bean plant near your garden and spray with castor oil,apply blood meal,make a spray with hot pepper and garlic,and put in wooden skewers al around

i wonder if you take a different apps and put a feeder out for the Squirels. If you keep it full maybe it would be more appetizing?

I've had success with shake away, a squirrell repellant made from coyote urine.

Re: Moth balls.....I tried plenty of them. The squirrels loved the moth balls. Quickly, they figured out the moth balls could not be eaten, but they played with them....truly, I stood at my kitchen window and watched the squirrels play with them and plant them. I tried using 'gum balls' from a tree because they are very prickly. I put them around my plants. Wouldn't you think the squirrels wouldn't want to step on them? Nope, they just smacked them to the side and went right on digging. If I put potted plants on my front porch, they are in Heaven! They love to plant acorns in the pots. They will actually throw the plants out of the pots to install their acorns. I had tomatoes in pots last summer with netting over the plants, hooked to the pot with clothes pins. Nope....that didn't deter them, they pulled the netting back, chewing some of it, and went up under the netting to get to the tomatoes. I hate to take my bird feeders down because of them too.

Not much deters those pesky critters. I hate to say it but a bb gun might work. We've tried it all. they took up residence in my roof. The neighbors hand feed them. Squirrels are very destructive. Haven't tried the bb gun myself , haha but i;ve thought about it. Good luck!

I had trouble with the buggers digging in my half barrel planters, Cayenne pepper worked for a while. I solved it by putting a mouse trap baited with peanut butter. The traps are too small to capture them, but it scares the bejesus out of them and they didn't ever come back. Maybe if you do that around the edges of your garden it will teach them to stay out. Last year something ate off the tops of my carrots when they were a few inches high and they actually kept growing, I thought they were goners until I saw new leaves coming up! I used the shredded soap trick on my garden to stop some four legged creature from cutting off my corn as it came up and the plants have been left alone for two weeks now, I even have some corn plants that are now almost two feet high( lost a lot to unexpected very cold, wet three week period after I seeded my green beans and corn).

Thanks everyone for helping with my problem squirrels!!

Oh wow. Only other thing I can think of would be chicken wire type fencing with a much smaller mesh that they cannot get through. All sides and across the top.

Well, that's probably not going to happen.