Our tomatoes are coming in beautifully but we haven't been able to eat a single fruit since we've come under attack. Squirrels are ravaging our garden. Every time a big beautiful tomato (some are bigger than my hand) begins to develop the slightest hue of orange the nasty varmints pick them off the vine, take one big nip and throw them down. All their climbing around is snapping the plants' branches and breaking off leaves.
I'm feeling enraged. I looked up solutions on the internet: traps, spreading fox urine, building huge enclosed pens for the garden but none seem very feasible. I don't have the time or energy to enclose my whole garden in wire mesh. I don't really want my food covered in fox urine and its only a temporary solution since the squirrels eventually realize there's no actual fox around to kill them. Which made me think I need an actual fox. But apparently MD has laws against owning foxes. I suspect the squirrel lobby was behind that one. So now I want a dog, a big, vicious, squirrel eating dog. Or a bb gun. I told Aaron I found the gun I want for $80. He said that was a high price to pay for tomatoes. I told him it was a small price to pay for Revenge.
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Is it on your baby registry? Maybe some of us could go in for it. After all, a baby needs tomatoes...and vindication.
Amen! The squirrels here have taken issue with my Jalapeno plant. I think I will have to get myself bb gun.
We saved a whole tree full of cherries last year from some birds thanks to a bb gun. Ask landon about it.
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