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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]




[i][c=BF0080]The sticks..[/c][/i]
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fun4us2bM
NO! I sprinkled red pepper flakes around some roses after I saw him climbing around in them - next day all the flowers were eaten!
cherokeepatti61-69, F
@fun4us2b Use powdered cayenne
fun4us2bM
@cherokeepatti I have used that in the past - I agree, I think it worked better
cherokeepatti61-69, F
@fun4us2b Works for squirrels and bird seed in the feeders. They get one bite of that and they don鈥檛 want to eat bird seed for a long while. Birds don鈥檛 mind it at all though, it鈥檚 probably good for them against bird-worms.
fun4us2bM
@cherokeepatti Wow - that's a great tip - I read that birds do not smell/mind hot pepper...very interesting.
MellyMel22F
@cherokeepatti [i][c=BF0080]I load up the cayenne and they鈥檙e still coming 馃槱[/c][/i]
cherokeepatti61-69, F
@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.
MellyMel22F
@cherokeepatti [i][c=BF0080]That鈥檚 a great idea. I鈥檓 glad it helped you! Thank you for sharing. I find that all interesting! [/c][/i]