ORIGINAL: Will_L
ORIGINAL: geofflambert
Well, I've been using Frank's RedHot lately, but not for gorn tails but to keep squirrels away from my blackberries. Hot stuff doesn't have any effect on birds though, but deterring squirrels saves a lot for me. It's interesting that the very reason some plants have fruit (and peppers count) that is hot is because the plant has evolved to have birds spread their seed as opposed to mammalian varmints who don't go very far before taking a crap. I mix the hot sauce in a hand sprayer at a proportion of 1 to 10 and spray the emerging fruit after each rain. It works.
Nice, to keep the squirrels out of our garden I peel apples and powder them with cayenne pepper
then leave them near my zucchini plants, also leave peeled apples without cayenne so they don't
just avoid them. Darn things love to nibble the ends off the young zucchinis.
Hilarious when one takes a bite and then scrambles up the fence and starts grunting.
I just trap 'em or shoot 'em with my air gun. Later I make a pot of squirrel surprise. Mmmm, good eatin'. Tastes a bit like rat-ta-tui.[:D]
