Pest Control: Squirrels

Our tomato, tomatillo and pepper plants were finally looking beautiful. We had so many little baby fruits starting on all the plants we were already thinking about the number of different sauces we could make, learning about how to can tomatoes,thinking about whether we should invest in a pressure canner.

Then one day, Ron went down to check on the bounty that was our garden, and he saw the dreadful squirrel hole right in the middle of a row of tomato plants. After successfully battling the earwigs and other six-legged pests, controlling the moles underground, keeping out the rabbits, the squirrels could not be stopped. They will enter the garden from underground, get through any chain linked fence or just climb right over it. Not only did they make a hole inside the garden, but as if to taunt us, the squirrel left a half-eaten tomato right outside the fence. You may have won this battle my friend, but the war has just begun...

Half-eaten tomatillos left outside of the garden by squirrels