Have you succeeded in keeping chipmunks outta your veggie plants?
[i][c=BF0080]Please share what helped if anything!
I have absolutely had it. Last year I bought cayenne and citrus stick on things and they helped, but the little b*stards would still get in some plants. This year I loaded them with cayenne and the little sh*ts are digging holes EVERY day in my plants. I鈥檓 so tired of it 馃槨 I thought maybe something kinda sharp might help scare them away, so I broke large shish kabob sticks and dug them into those plants. Hopefully that helps. I don鈥檛 wanna use chemicals near my plants 馃槱
The holes are hard to see on the pics, they were much deeper than they appear and these are only some. [/c][/i]
@windinhishair he's a proud and efficient kitty. Does yours eat their faces off? Easy does that, to everything he gets. I think it is payback for trying to bite him back.
Mine will eat the heads off sometimes. Every once in awhile he eats most of one and leaves the rest, but probably 18 of the 22 were intact and recently killed within a few hours.
@windinhishair he is a good boy. Very independent. He spends most of his time outdoors. Comes in to eat, get a little attention and maybe a warm or cool nap(depending on the season). Fourteen and he still acts a young man
@TexChik [i][c=BF0080]I already searched poison 馃槅 but I don鈥檛 wanna find them dead on my patio 馃あ they do it before I鈥檓 awake I think. I only notice it in the morning and I water the plants most nights. [/c][/i]
@MellyMel22 find a neighborhood Kid with a pellet gun . Set up a bait station with a safe back stop and offer him a few bucks per critter dispatched . 馃槈
@cherokeepatti [i][c=BF0080]I forget where the other hole is, but the one I know the exact spot is a sideways hole. Also I stuffed it with mulch 馃き [/c][/i]
@fun4us2b they have a different sensory to hot peppers than mammals do. I have given chickens dried cayenne pepper flakes in a big pan of gravy with some chicken scratch in it because they weren鈥檛 laying eggs. Someone told me it would warm their bodies up to where they would start laying eggs. Well it did warm them up and the worms that they had. They expelled the worms the next day and then started laying eggs again and their combs turned red again. If I had chickens again I鈥檇 be feeding them red pepper flakes every month or so in some gravy. I grew those cayenne peppers and they produced so many I strung them up on threads and dried them for use during the winter.
Next year when prepping your garden, put a cage of fine mesh wire both under the dirt and above. It's the only way to keep them out, unless you have a scary moving fake owl you can put on a post. They are afraid of owls.
use a live trap and rehome them or try : Peppermint Oil Spray or peppermint essential oils and mix your own. good for bugs too but dont cheap out get the good stuff
@Ozuye502 [i][c=BF0080]Thank you. I do use those oils for bugs! And more.. I have pots on my patio and there鈥檚 a lot of opening, so I鈥檓 not sure I could do that here. It鈥檚 a condo. I put those sharp broken shish kabob sticks in yesterday morning and today I saw two tiny dents in two pots. I鈥檓 hoping the sticks scared them- if so that might be all I need. Fingers crossed! Thank you for your help! [/c][/i]
We have squirrels.. 馃 and weird groundhog like things.. haven鈥檛 seen the groundhog things in awhile tho since there鈥檚 so many cats around lately.. also haven鈥檛 seen many squirrels..
My issue is usually bugs or trying to keep things alive in the desert environment..
fear.. it works with keeping the cats off the shelf.. and counter.. very stiff paper folded and place it over a mouse trap.. when the critter hits the paper the trap goes off and the loud slap scares the critter. the idea of the paper is to prevent harm to the critter also. mark
@anythingoes477 [i][c=BF0080]Thanks! Someone mentioned that, I鈥檓 gonna look when I鈥檓 out. I think the sticks I put in the plants might be helping. It鈥檚 only been a day though. [/c][/i]
@Patty81 [i][c=BF0080]Thank you. I actually added some to my Amazon cart this morning. I was thinking of putting it over the dirt b/c they plants are gonna get pretty big. [/c][/i]
@ImperialAerosolKidFromEP [i][c=BF0080]Maybe I should start feeding the outdoor cats 馃槅 But it鈥檒l have to wait, we currently have had a bear roaming the condo area here 馃槅[/c][/i]
