Help! Squirrels Eating My Plants in Flower Bed and Pots.

The squirrels were tearing up our cedar elm trees not too long ago. The fall and spring is bad because the little critters make sure a mess.

We solved the problem for the most part with a pellet gun. You don't have to shoot them, it is the noise and they will run away. The pellet gun helps a lot around here but it might not be feasible if you are not on a large lot with privacy.

Also, they started eating my pumpkins I had out for decor so I just threw the pumpking back in the woods and now they are munching out there and not in my yard.

EDIT: I bet the cayenne pepper would work. We had woodpeckers and a porcupine on a live oak tree and our tree guy said to "paint" hot pepper sauce on the tree trunk. It is worth a try!!

hmmm.....get a recipe from chef john folse for a squirrel sauce picquant? :)

I've heard sprinkling cayenne pepper around the flowers works wonders.

Moth balls stink, but they work wonderfully. We got rid of a family of squirrels in our attic that way. Best Wishes, B. P.

Hey there M.! There are two things that you can do, and the first works the best. You can purchase Fox urine at your local hardware store or Wally World in the hunting section. Just spray it around the areas where the little buggars are eating your plants. Second next spring you can plant a bush called wormwood that will will repell them away from your other plants if the bushes are close enough to the plants they are eating. Hope I could be of some help, the worst thing to do is try to trap or harm the animals, they are just trying to get a free meal! The Fox Urine really will work, good luck!!

The red pepper didn't work at all for us. I'm going to give the moth balls and fox urine a try. Surprisingly, they are also eating our st. augustine grass. So frustrating!!! We live in the country with trees all around our house and we are overrun with the little buggers!

S.

Moth balls work the best for everything. Animals don't like them at all, neither do I. Anyway, you can smash them down and sprinkle on the ground on the plants. It will keep a lot of animals way.
Good luck!