What can I do to keep squirrels out of my potted plants?

I put aluminum foil over the dirt or else buy red pepper flakes from the dollar store and sprinkle on the soil-you can also put little rocks over the soil to deter the squirrels

Here are some ideas that might help: https://www.hgtv.com/outdoors/gardens/planting-and-maintenance/how-to-keep-squirrels-away-from-your-garden

Carolyn: you can put some bird netting (black) around them (Home Depot)

We use rocks / stones. Just heavy enough that they can't move them. We went to a landscape supply and purchased a few different sizes to see what worked best. River rocks were perfect, smooth and heavy enough that they couldn't push them around.

Here's an idea

https://www.hometalk.com/diy/grow/protect-your-containers-and-plants-from-digging-squirrels-37144137

Rocks, stones, brick fragments, flat ceramics that are broken, seashells, oyster shells...to name a few. The squirrels have been really bad this year with the digging, they have uprooted many of my plants, some are salvageable, some are dead. Also putting the tomato cages around them helps, think it messes up their angle of trying to dig.

Wire mesh. They are such pests! One year I had one eat a hot pepper!

Try covering the soil w tin foil